Zach McLain has announced his entrance into the 2022 election for Sheridan County Sheriff.
Below is a letter formally announcing the bid. In the letter, McLain talks about his career as a firefighter working for the City of Sheridan and as a business owner.
McLain said he intends to reach ac
second-degree manslaughter while it exposes him to four years in prison, we re talking about a negligence crime. you may have a couple people on a jury assuming this doesn t plead out which i think this is a case that s ripe for a plea talking about a 73-year-old man who clearly made a mistake and this was an accidental shooting. i think that you get a couple people on the jury that sort of feel sympathy for him, perhaps empathy. he s 73 years old. was sort of this deputy reserve. i think it s quite possible that it s not the easiest case for a prosecutor. so a not guilty plea pretty expected at this stage. sunny, thanks so much. stick around. i want to talk to you about another trial now under way. the boston bombing trial second phase as i said now under way. the same jury that convicted dzhokhar tsarnaev will decide if he should live or die. deborah feyerick live in boston with more for us this morning good morning, deborah.
if the documents are authentic but appear to show deputy baits had a fairly significant training record. he did take one taser training class which is all that is required, and from 2008 to 2014 he took three firearms training classes andt55qñ ten handgun qualification sessions. he scored proficient in all but three of the courses but none of the courses covered the gun that was used to shoot eric harris all in bates took classes on everything from identity theft to relations with the muslim world. it s interesting his training officers noted that during suppressful situations he didn t perform way and that became a common theme throughout his process of becoming an advanced deputy reserve. any word from the victim s
captured by another behavior that might be more well rehearsed or motorized internally than your initial intention. so what ends up happening is, you do the opposite of what you intended. ed lavandera joins us now from tulsa. i ve never heard of this slip and capture, you ve been in touch with bates attorney since his client was charged with second degree manslaughter, what s he saying now, what s the latest? well, they say that robert bates is not guilty of this manslaughter charge, that he was doing his duty as were well outlined and legal within his rights as a deputy reserve deputy with the tulsa county sheriff s department, they will fight these charges, they had been pushing the district attorney s office to pass this off as a excusable homicide that based on his roll and the way he was acting, it was a justifiable situation. what was his role supposed to be? i mean, is it common to have,
mr. mayor. how do you respond to that? well, we re very fortunate we have a terrific police department. we have some very high standards. we require a college degree or similar before an individual will be considered to be a tulsa police officer. the gentleman that s having the problem, the deputy reserve, he was a tulsa police officer, but i believe only for about one year and that was 30 or 40 years ago, and i believe it was before those standards were raised. so do you think it would be worth re-examining the use because i know not every city in this country uses reserve officers reserve deputies at sheriff s departments. should that be reconsidered? well we do use reserve officers but we do not use them in the way that the sheriff s department has done in this particular instance. we use them mainly for crowd control, for parking situations working concerts traffic