police officer who said he accidently shot and killed a suspect when he the officer, grabbed his gun instead of his taser. in the days after the incident the story broke that members of the tulsa county sheriff allegheny county office were ordered to falsify the training records of that part-time volunteer officer. now the police are denying that and the reporters who wrote that part of the story have just resigned. 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. he s a millionaire. and good friends with the sheriff. they said he accidently pulled out his gun instead of his
i took a first look at everything. i didn t get a chance to study everything, but there s a couple things that stand out to me. one of them is that he has had a significant amount of training according to these records. but what i see here is he got a 24-hour homicide training course. i don t want him on the scene of a homicide. crime scene photography, why would he be getting that kind of training? is he paying for this training or is the city paying for it? the screen says tulsa deputy but he is a volunteer officer. that is very different than a hired and paid officer. there are some records where he puts in 20 hours a week. some up to 60 hours a month. that s a lot of time this man puts in. can we step back and talk about why these reserve positions exist? a lot of viewers, i was asking myself there s a lot of positions where you cannot volunteer for something. you cannot be a volunteer brain
he performed in a way that would explain the lack of training that he s had over these last several months and maybe years. harry, there are professions i mean most professions you cannot be a volunteer. you cannot be a volunteer brain surgeon, right? exactly. should you be able to be a volunteer officer? well volunteer officers are utilized by police departments in the country basically just for things like traffic and parades and things like that. but this was a set-up sting operation. this is the problem. i said this is the problem before as to what happens when you inject politics into law enforcement. this guy was allowed it appears to me that this guy is allowed to be on scenes like this where he s not a professional. i tell you what you probably won t get any of these officers to speak out about it but i bet you they don t like the idea of a man like that being on the scene either. let s remember that the oklahoma naacp has now called for an investigation into
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you just heard mr. bates attorney making the case. what do you say? clearly, this guy didn t do it intentionally to pull his gun out and kill this guy. we could probably say that there was no intent to kill. but what is really strange. why do you have a volunteer officer on a gun buy operation? you know where you got to have detectives. he is 73 years old. well that s another thing. he is 73 years old, all right. and usually, when you have a taser, you got to have the taser on one side and your weapon on the other. this way you don t make the mistake by pulling your weapon. so it s always on the same side. it s always on the same tied and your taser is on this side. so how this guy mistakenly did it tells me he did it is so fast he wasn t watching what he was doing, fired, and at the last minute oh my god, i shot at this guy. also you to take into account, okay, this guy is 73 years old. is he mentally capable to be able to do this kind of a job?