Posted on 04/13/2015 1:31:57 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Prosecutors have charged a white reserve sheriff's deputy in Oklahoma with manslaughter in the shooting of a black suspect.
A second-degree manslaughter charge was filed Monday against 73-year-old Tulsa County reserve deputy Robert Bates.
Police have said Bates thought he was holding a stun gun, not his handgun, when he fired at 44-year-old Eric Harris in the April 2 incident.
A man can be heard apologizing and admitting to shooting a person in a video that documents the killing.
If other cops are wrestling with the suspect and the suspect gets tased do the cops get tased also? I would think so, but I don’t know.
The Defense has already put out the meme :
'He also said he believed there was a "strong possibility" that Harris had a gun.'
Whatever he decided about the tazering, in the end, he did not taze him, he shot him dead.
Yet he still gets to leave the country for vacation while out on bond.
He must be funding the police department.
Don’t worry, they have.
“I feared for my life” is next. That is their get out of jail free card.
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