trace gallagher live with the story. trace? megyn. the two journalists based their report on a number of anonymous sources saying they faced the record of the officer and department have the training orto be a sheriff s deputy. millionaire. and good friends with the sheriff. they said he accidently pulled out his gun instead of his taser. watch this. roll on your stomach now. damn story! oh [ bleep ]. now, the sheriff s office and robert bates produced documents that show bates had significant training for example he took 13 different firearms training classes and qualification sessions. he score proficient in all but three of them. although none of the courses covered the gun used to shoot
taser. watch this. roll on your stomach now. damn story! oh [ bleep ]. now, the sheriff s office and robert bates produced documents that show bates had significant training for example he took 13 different firearms training classes and qualification sessions. he score proficient in all but three of them. although none of the courses covered the gun used to shoot him. in all, robert bates took 24 training classes from identity theft to relations with the muslim world. it s interesting his training officers noted he did not perform well during stressful situation. now the tul is world said the two journalists who broke the story resigned because of other opportunities. the paper also says the resignations are not related to the article. but when asked if the paper
sting operation that went wrong. speaking publicly for the first time, bates maintains he accidentally shot eric harris and apologized to the family of the victim. here s cnn s ed lavandera. oh, i shot him! reporter: in an interview with nbc s the today show bates said he still cannot believe it happened. first and foremost, let me apologize to the family of erik harris. this is the second thing that ever happened to me in my life. i had cancer a number of years ago. i didn t think i was going to get there. luckily i was able to go to a hospital where i had hours of surgery. irate this as number one. on my list of things in my life
about his training record. i can now tell you that the tulsa world report is now saying that supervisors at the county sheriff s office were told to falsify the training records for bates. in fact the tulsa world reports that three of bates supervisors were reassigned after refusing to sign the training documents. now, the report does not say who asked the supervisors to allegedly falsify the records. now, people have seen this video. they heard bates say he s sorry after saying he was reaching for his taser and instead pulled a gun and shot this man who later died. but like i say records show in the last seven years bates has taken a variety of courses, everything from weapons training including glock, taser and rock river training. now, all these training records were suppose to show bates was ready to be on the streets with his gun and taser training. but now all that s coming under question. we ve tried to contact that sheriff s department to figure out exactly whether or not this