didn t do [ bleep ]. you hear me? in his back. and ziva, what did your reporting show about what those officers now claim? they claim that they didn t hear the shot, that they weren t aware that eric harris was shot. there is a consultant that the sheriff s office has brought in. he gave a press conference at which he discussed a syndrome in which law enforcement officers lose their hearing, their auditory capabilities during a stressful situation. however, that is definitely contradicted by their own information, that deputy bates said taser, taser, which is standard procedure when you re going to use a taser and the deputies got out of the way so they didn t get tased. so there s a lot of contradictions that we ve been putting out in reporting. we re just trying to get to the truth so that people at tulsa and oklahoma, so that they can know what happened.
harris haves. joining us to discuss this, one of the reporters who broke the story. let s be clear been, i said before, fully understand what you re reporting here, you re saying before this incident happened, potentially years before, they were people ordered to falsify the report. when they didn t, they were punished. that is correct. we have been told this by at least five sources and we have documents to corroborate this information. what we understand is that there are so-called field training officer records sort of in the field training that is supposed to be included and that there were not enough of those hours, that most of them actually didn t occur and deputy bates needed to have those hours and supervisors were ordered to just sign it. they refused. i don t know if you can say they were punished but they were transferred out to less desirable positions at least in the case of one of them. then the other issue was
working on the story. large national outlets. we have documents that corroborate this. there s a document that i can t discuss right knew will become public at some point. also the sheriff who s said they lost deputy bates handgun training records, they lost those, that i don t even know if he s qualified is what the sheriff said two days ago. deputy bates also in his statement said that he qualified as an advanced reserve deputy in 2007 which was not possible, the sheriff s office says he didn t start until 08 and it takes 400 hours to get that training. if we believe your sources, the obvious question is why do all this for bates? it as a good question. i think that the sheriff was quite plain that they were long time friends 40 50 years they went back fishing buddies, bates supported the sheriff s office quite a bit with automobiles, all kinds of donations and a lot of people say there s nothing wrong with that. so he was also the sheriff s campaign manager. he had a lot of co
he was going on an undercover task force, an agent of 73 which some people have noted is surprising. he was conducting. and according to his statement that we obtained today, more than 100 undercover operation wes this unit. he according to the records we obtained by the sheriff s office, had more than 400 hours of training. the sources we talked to say the documents we reviewed say that is in question. the sheriff said some of these firearms records have been lost and destroyed and he s still trying to figure out where they are and if deputy bates was certified with his firearms. andy coats, as a former prosecutor there in oklahoma are you hearing any potential violations of law in what ziva has been reporting? well certainly. if there s a real can of worms in the sli s office where they re not doing the training that particularly the reserve
incorrect, that the local newspaper was reporting, they could put this to bed yesterday by just providinge inging documentation. let s take away that he was properly trained. i m bothered by the fact that by his own admission, he hadn t fired his weapon since the fall of 2014. and why is a 73-year-old even allowed a part-time deputy allowed in such a high profile, high pressure incident. it s a good question and a lot more to come as the investigation continues. here s what one of the reporters on the story told a colleague of mine this morning, who was defending the report. take a listen. there s a document that i can t really discuss right now that will will become public at some point. there s also the sheriff that says they have lost deputy bates handgun training records. they have lost lost those and don t even know if he s qualified. so as we look at this how do