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Affiliate koki has more. >> stop right here. stop right here! >> reporter: independent consultant and tulsa police sergeant jim clark says while harris is running, officers catch up to him from behind and start to take him down. clark says at this time, robert bates was in front of harris and the officers in this video and clark says bates announces he has a taser. >> that is done to warn other law enforcement officers that youre about to deploy this device. >> reporter: then the shot goes off a...

Fire thousands of times so that it is a reflex. under extreme distress its not something you think about. you know the difference. you carry the gun on one side and the taser on another. its enough of a different grip and a different maneuver to pull one instead of the other. if you drill long enough, you know, you should pull the right weapon at the right time. however, a taser is not always, you know, effective. it doesnt always work on everybody. i think in that video, you hear that clicking ...

>> reporter: clark says after the shot was fired, bates gun immediately fell to the ground. he says that is because a taser grip and gun grip are different. >> he, obviously, had a taser grip which caused the gun upon discharge to leave his hands and fall to the pavement. >> i want to bring in former fbi assistant director tom fuentes. good morning to you, tom. >> good morning. >> good morning. in the piece, investigators say the mistake by the deputy going for his gun as opposed to the taser is...

Revealed that, and it appears that through this videotape that sis where it fell. >> reporter: and don, tonight, we have received dozens of pages of pes nell pages of the officer of how he was applied to the police force there five years ago and he had serve ed ind in the coast guard before that, before becoming a police aufofficer, and there were two things that were kind of raised some eyebrows, and two reports that were issued by the citizens of formal complaints that were issued to the offic...

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