office were ordered to falsify a reserve deputy s training records, giving him credit for field training he never took and firearms certifications he should not have received. at least three of reserve deputy robert bates supervisors were transferred after refusing to sign off on his state-required training multiple sources speaking on condition of anonymity told the world. robert bates is of course, the 73 the-year-old man who, in his role as a volunteer reserve deputy, shot eric harris while he was being arrested and handcuffed by tulsa county deputies. eric harris later died at the hospital. on your stomach, now. oh, i shot him. i m sorry. he shot me, man. oh, my god. [ bleep ]. you hear me?
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
according to our sources. today, we were able to get documents that corroborated this to the fullest and we re very confident that we have the information correctly. the sheriff s office says that they don t know anything about this and that the training records are accurate. and, ziva as i understand your report he was qualified as what they call advanced reserve, which allowed him to participate in virtually everything that any of those regular sheriffs would do. and there are other levels of this that restrict the participation of some of these people if they haven t completed this training. correct. so many states have this system of reserve deputies people who basically volunteer to help with things like crowd control, you know, just sort of normal patrollingpatrol ing duties. deputy bates was, for all intents and purposes a regular deputy.
and the district attorney who put aaron hernandez away for life will join me. but first, there is a new report tonight from oklahoma about the reserve deputy who says he mistaken left-hand shot and killed a suspect when he meant to use his taser. sources inside the department are saying that the man did not fulfill the training required to participate in arrests like that one. tulsa, oklahoma 73-year-old robert bates was formally charged with second degree man slaughter. after he says mistakenly he reached for his gun and not his taser. robert bates attorney says he didn t think he should be charged at all. a well intentioned surgeon causes the life of a patient, they don t get charged with man slaughter. his analogy to the operating room, that s wrong. that s not what we cow criminal negligence. guilty of murder in the first degree. former patriots aaron
from the tulsa world and andy coats, from the university oklahoma college of law and a former criminal defense attorney. ziva, i want to get to your report tonight about the possible falsifying of the training records of this reserve deputy. tell us what you know about that. well, this is something we started hearing, lawrence, like one day after the shooting. multiple sources called us. they were afraid to speak with their names, but they had said that the training records for deputy bates were not accurate, that he was not taking the training that he was recorded to have taken, that supervisors who expressed concern, who refused to sign off were transferred. this happened with the field training that they do with other officers. they also happened with the firearms certification training, according to our sources. today, we were able to get documents that corroborated this to the fullest and we re very