Pay-to-play deputy’s training records faked so he could carry guns: report

At least three supervisors at the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office were transferred after they refused to falsify training records for a reserve deputy now charged in the fatal shooting of a black suspect, according to a newspaper report.
Robert Bates, 73, was charged with second-degree manslaughter in the shooting death of Eric Harris during an April 2 undercover operation after the reserve deputy apparently mistook a service firearm for a Taser.

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The Tulsa World reported early Thursday that Bates, a personal friend of the sheriff who donated five patrol cars and other equipment to the department, was given credit for field training he never took and firearms certification he should not have received.
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