>>> in florida tonight, demands for the arrest of a neighborhood watch volunteer who shot and killed an unarmed teenager last month, they are demands that are growing in the wake of revelations from a victim's girlfriend that she was on the phone with him as the incident happened. and the involvement of the justice department , the other new development in this case. nbc's ron allen with us tonight from sanford, florida . ron, good evening.
>> reporter: good evening, brian. hundreds people are here inside and outside this church to confront local authorities and demand an arrest for the killing of trayvon martin. in washington today, the justice department said it would investigate the case. here in florida , the states attorney said he would lay the case out before a grand jury and let them decide what to do next. the martin family laid out more proof that he was an innocent victim . they played recordings of a phone conversation between he and his girlfriend. she heard what happened.
>> she hears another voice say, what are you doing around here?
>> reporter: then she said she heard what sounded like an altercation. the defense says george zimmerman shot and killed trayvon martin in self-defense. a shooting with no racial overtones or hate crimes. but when zimmerman was calling police the night trayvon was killed he used a racial epithet .
>> what entrance is he heading toward?
>> the back entrance. [ bleep ].
>> reporter: all of this is igniting more demands for an arrest. the victim's parents say their online petition has more than half a million signatures. for many here, the martin case is not an isolated incident. just last year, when a police officer 's sun assaulted a black man outside a bar, it took a month -- and 24 this video appearing on youtube before charges were filed. in 2005 , murder charges against two white security guards were dismissed after a black teen was shot dead.
>> this is where it happened?
>> yes, just about right here.
>> reporter: if this quiet and comfortable community where there had been a rash of burglaries, residents are still outraged by what they heard in zimmerman 's neighborhood watch call to police.
>> are you following him?
>> yeah.
>> okay, we don't need you to do that.
>> he's not charles bronson , and this wasn't "death wish." this isn't a movie, it's an actual thing that's happened out here. i really hope the fbi can get to the bottom of it.
>> reporter: but pastor valley houston, a mother, says black parents have been warning their young sons to be careful for years. she's hopeful the martin family now gets some measure of justice.
>> we don't feel like justice has been done. we want an arrest. we want all the questions answered as much as possible.
>> reporter: this is just one of several protests and town halls planned for this week. a lot of people are saying that hearing those 911 calls, hearing the police tell zimmerman to back off, hearing martin's cries for help have turned up the intensity here. and again, zimmerman was nowhere to be found.
>> ron allen , thanks.
>>> a program note , trayvon martin's parents will be here in our new york studios tomorrow morning on "today" for an exclusive interview.
Source: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nightly-news/46801831/
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