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73 years old?
1 posted on 04/13/2015 1:31:57 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
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Other posts indicated he was a wealthy man who had paid to be on the force as an auxiliary. He might not have been up to snuff on his weaponry reflexes (”This is your Tazer, this is your gun.”). Bad shoot, from what I’ve read—he was trying to zap a suspect already on the ground. Even if he was struggling, there should have been enough time to look at what was in his hand before pulling the trigger.


2 posted on 04/13/2015 1:34:24 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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Bootlickers...unite!!!!
3 posted on 04/13/2015 1:37:11 PM PDT by 4yearlurker (Fifteen two,fifteen four and a pair is six.)
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Was even a tazing necessary, at that stage of the arrest?


5 posted on 04/13/2015 1:40:20 PM PDT by ansel12
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Well, the most important thing is that the 73-year old pay-to-play reserve officer got to go home to his mansion at the end of his pretend shift.


8 posted on 04/13/2015 1:53:17 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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I guess they are going to have to paint the stun guns green and pink so no one confuses them with guns in the future!


10 posted on 04/13/2015 2:13:01 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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That’s interesting. An earlier article said he’d been cleared of wrong-doing by the police department. I guess the prosecutor saw things differently.


11 posted on 04/13/2015 2:15:48 PM PDT by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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Good philanthropist, bad cop!

Bad decision by Tulsa PD.

13 posted on 04/13/2015 2:16:56 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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So an influential constituent wanted to get in on the action and carry out his long term dream.


20 posted on 04/13/2015 3:03:05 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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'In a written statement, Tulsa County District Attorney Stephen A. Kunzweiler said Bates is charged with second-degree manslaughter involving culpable negligence. It's a felony charge that could land the volunteer deputy in prison for up to four years if he's found guilty. '

The Defense has already put out the meme :

'He also said he believed there was a "strong possibility" that Harris had a gun.'

22 posted on 04/13/2015 5:55:50 PM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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