A New Orleans police officer resigned Tuesday after coming under fire for offensive comments he posted to a news website about slain teenager Trayvon Martin.

Over the weekend, Jason Giroir, a 13-year veteran of the police department, took to a television station’s site to offer his verdict on the death of the unarmed 17-year-old: “Act like a Thug die like one!” in response to a WWL-TV article about a rally supporting Martin. Giroir also addressed another reader when he posted: ‘Come on down to our town with a ‘Hoodie’ and you can join Martin in HELL and talk about your racist stories!’

A acting chief of police was named during a daily press conference in Sanford Monday.

City Manager Norton Bonaparte, Jr. said Capt. Darren Scott will serve as the city’s acting police chief.

Bill Lee “temporarily” removed himself from the position Thursday, saying he hopes to restore some calm to the city.

His annoucement came after city commissioners gave Lee a vote of no confidence for his handling of the Trayvon Martin controversy.

Bonaparte then appointed joint commanders Scott and Capt. Robert O’Conner to lead the police department.

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SANFORD — despite public claims that there wasn’t enough probable cause to make a criminal case in the Trayvon Martin killing, early in the investigation the Sanford Police Department requested an arrest warrant from the Seminole County State Attorney’s office, the special prosecutor in the case told the Miami Herald on Tuesday.

A Sanford police incident report shows the case was categorized as “homicide/negligent manslaughter.”

The state attorney’s office held off pending further review, the Heraldreports.

The Miami Gardens high school junior was killed Feb. 26 by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer. The 28-year-old insurance underwriter and college student was never charged, triggering a nationwide crusade on the dead teen’s behalf.

Asked to confirm that the police recommended a manslaughter charge, special prosecutor Angela Corey said:

“I don’t know about that, but as far as the process I can tell you that the police went to the state attorney with a capias request, meaning: ‘We’re through with our investigation and here it is for you.’ The state attorney impaneled a grand jury, but before anything else could be done, the governor stepped in and asked us to pick it up in midstream.”

A capias is a request for charges to be filed.

The Seminole County State Attorney’s Office declined to comment on whether its prosecutors ever recommended against filing charges.

The Herald quoted an unnamed source in the Seminole State Attorney’s Office as saying the office gets capias warrants all the time, but that doesn’t mean it files charges right away.

The Seminole County State Attorney’s Office was consulted the night of Martin’s killing, but no prosecutor ever visited the scene. As the controversy intensified, Gov. Rick Scott replaced Seminole State Attorney Norm Wolfinger with Corey, the state attorney for Duval, Nassau and Clay counties, based in Jacksonville.

The development is in stark contrast to the statements repeatedly made by Bill Lee, the Sanford police chief who has since stepped aside and was lambasted for his handling of the case. Lee publicly insisted that there was no probable cause to arrest Zimmerman, leading many critics to say he came across more like a defense attorney for the security buff.

“Zimmerman provided a statement claiming he acted in self defense which at the time was supported by physical evidence and testimony,” Lee wrote in a memo posted on the city’s website. “By Florida Statute, law enforcement was PROHIBITED from making an arrest based of the facts and circumstances they had at the time.”

He cited the statute number for Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law, which provides immunity to people who kill someone in self defense.

Lee’s was criticized for his explanations, because many people though the was bending over backward to protect the shooter based on the results of a shoddy investigation.

A spokeswoman for the city said the Police Department would make no further comments on the ongoing investigation.

The FBI and Florida Department of Law Enforcement took over the case. An FDLE investigator and the new prosecutor were spotted in Zimmerman’s neighborhood Tuesday interviewing witnesses.

Many of the facts of what happened at the Retreat at Twin Lakes that night remain murky.

What’s clear is that Martin was staying at his father’s girlfriend’s house in a gated community in Sanford while serving out a 10-day suspension for getting caught with an empty baggie of marijuana at Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School.

He went for a walk shortly before the start of the NBA All Star game to buy Skittles and iced tea. Zimmerman, who had a history of reporting “suspicious characters,” spotted Martin when he was on his way back from 7-Eleven and called police saying he saw someone who looked high, walked too slowly in the rain and appeared to be looking at people’s houses.

The neighborhood watch volunteer, who was licensed to carry a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun in a holster, was recorded on the police line muttering profanities and a possible racial slur. He tailed Martin until the teen took off running.

Martin’s family’s attorneys say the dead teen’s cell phone records show he was on the phone with his girlfriend, who told lawyers that Martin was alarmed that someone was following him. She heard him ask Zimmerman why he was pursuing him, then heard a scuffle before the line went dead.

Zimmerman told police that Martin approached him from behind and attacked him. The Orlando Sentinel, citing an unnamed police source, reported that Zimmerman said Martin decked him with one punch and slammed his head on the concrete.

The two tussled on the ground, and Zimmerman took the gun from his waist and shot Martin once in the chest.

Zimmerman, Lee told the Herald two weeks ago, was able to articulate that he was in “reasonable fear” of great bodily harm or death.

Witness statements and a doctor’s report corroborated his injuries, Lee said. A police report said he had a bloody nose and a grass-stained shirt.

Washington (CNN) — Most of us go about our daily business never thinking about the U.S. Supreme Court or the cases it decides. But sometimes, it gets a case so big — and could affect your life so much — you simply have to take notice. This week is one of those times.

The highest court in the land is preparing to tackle perhaps the most important appeals to reach it in more than a decade: the massive health care reform legislation championed by President Barack Obama.

The court will soon hear six hours of oral arguments over three days on the law’s constitutionality — and your health and your finances could be on the line. Their eventual rulings in an election year will not only guide how every American receives medical care but would also establish precedent-setting boundaries of government regulation over a range of social areas.

“The implications in the health care litigation are impossible to overstate,” said Thomas Goldstein, a prominent Washington attorney and publisher of SCOTUSblog.com. “It has tremendous consequences for President Obama’s re-election because it’s a signature achievement. But in terms of law, this case is really going to decide how much power Congress has to regulate spheres that we’ve often thought of as the jobs of the states or of just individuals.”

A century of federal efforts to offer universal health care culminated with the 2010 passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. After months of bare-knuckled fights over politics and policy,the legislation signed by Obama reached 2,700 pages, nine major sections and 450 some provisions.

The new Black Panther Party offered a bounty of $10,000 Saturday for the “capture” of a Florida neighborhood watch captain who killed unarmed teen Trayvon Martin.

“An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,” leader Mikhail Muhammad said after announcing the reward for George Zimmerman at a protest in Sanford, Fla.

Muhammad called on 5,000 black men to mobilize and capture the neighborhood watch volunteer.

“If the government won’t do the job, we’ll do it,” Muhammad said, leading chants that included “freedom or death” and “justice for Trayvon.”

Muhammad said New Black Panther’s chairman, Malik Zulu Shabaz of Washington, was taking donations from black entertainers and athletes.

The group hopes to collect $1 million off the outrage by next week.

New Black Panthers members pointed to what they called the inaction of government officials — from Sanford city officials up to the governor — and accused them of lying and delaying justice.

They also said Angela Corley, the newly appointed special prosecutor, was an enemy of the black community.

“She has a track record of sending innocent young black men and women to prison,” Muhammad said.