NBC dismisses producer over Trayvon Martin case

American commercial broadcasting television network, NBC, has fired a producer over a misleading edit of an audio clip of a 911 emergency response call during the coverage of Trayvon Martin shooting. The dismissal of the unnamed Miami-based producer on Thursday followed an internal investigation by NBC, which led to the network apologizing earlier this week for having broadcast the deceptive recording, Reuters reported. NBC's Today show first aired the edited recording on March 27. The audio that viewers heard was trimmed to suggest that Zimmerman volunteered to police, with no prompting, that Martin was black, "This guy looks like he's up to no good. He looks black." But the portion of the tape where the 911 dispatcher specifically asks Zimmerman if the person in question was "black, white or Hispanic," was deleted. The conversation that actually occurred between the dispatcher and Zimmerman is as follows, "This guy looks like he's up to no good. Or he's on drugs or something. It's raining and he's just walking around, looking about." Then the dispatcher asked, "O.K., and this guy - is he white, black or Hispanic?" To which Zimmerman replied, "He looks black." Later that night on February 26, 17-year-old African-American teenager Trayvon Martin was shot dead by Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida. Martin was unarmed, and was carrying a bag of Skittles and a bottle of iced tea, when he was fatally shot.