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>> and our ed lavandera is live in tulsa. ed you know i read something that apparently he also before going into the insurance business that he was on the tulsa police force, is that accurate? >> reporter: he served for one year as a tulsa police officer back in the mid 1960s. he spent the last seven or eight years working as a reserve deputy volunteering as a reserve deputy with the tulsa county sheriffs office. it is that relationship that robert bates has with the sheriff here of tulsa who ha...

Reassigned after they refused. its unclear who exactly issued the order. if true he could receive credit for field and weapons training he never completed. the sheriffs office denies the claim but the tulsa world newspaper standing by that report. >> back when he was trying to get on as a deputy. he had already been accepted into the program. then there was falsification of field training record then handgun records is what we understand. it was back several years ago. every since then he was na...

Who shot and killed an unarmed man. >> questions have been raised about whether bates paid to play deputy. >> murder in the first degree. >> sentenced to life without parole. >> aaron hernandez is a murdering thug. >> i forgive the hands of the people that had a hand in my sons murder. >> i think we can say we made the right decision. >> isis is advancing into ramadi. thousands of refugees fleeing. [ gunfire ] >> nbc news under fire once again. the story of their reporter being kidnapped changes...

The so-called reserve deputy who shot a man dead in tulsa. >> stop fighting! >> he calls it a huge mistake that he grabbed his gun instead of his taser. two weapons that he is supposed to be well trained on. well, heres another problem and it is a big one. nobody can find any paperwork that shows bates was trained to the departments standard. or, had any business being out there with a gun and a badge. cnn talked to reporters who are closely covering this story in tulsa and they say that theyve ...

Reserve program. this comes after a 73-year-old volunteer who says he accidentally shot an unarmed suspect and killed him, robert bates was charged on monday in the death of eric harris. he turned himself over on tuesday. meanwhile, the actuals "tulsa world" says supervisors at the sheriffs office were ordered to falsify the training records. its referring directly to bate bates. bates attorney told msnbc it is incredulous that these reports were made by the newspaper. we should note that story ...

Being watched after these new explosive reports have come out. >> yeah and an audit of the sheriffs department as well. thank you so much. last hour i sfo with the former atf agent. he said many different levels of training appear to have been shortchanged in the case of bates. a specific type of training for tasers as opposed to firearms and much higher level of training for tactical operations. >> we talked about earlier this week the fact theres a different training mechanism for use of a t...

Makes no sense to me and i think it was -- it was overkill. >> bates attorney says their client has had hundreds of hours of police training and was qualified to be on the scene. the sheriffs office says mistaking this large, brightly colored taser for this small, black pistol was a tragic, human error. >> theyve taken the fact that this man has been good to the community, has been ben negative lent to the community and has be a great citizen for our town and made it something bad or sinister. t...

Once and it is not clear if bates indicates ep was about to use his taser. his likely defense is when he grabbed the gun, his muscle memory theory. >> 22-year-old oscar grant get news a scuffle with bart transit police. officer mezzerly and another officer try to subdue grant. at some point the officer announces im going to taze him and then fires. trouble is he didnt use his taser. he mistakenly grabbed his semi automatic handgun fired one shot into his back killing him. protested erupted. how ...

>> i dont. >> no mystery to you. not today. thanks so much. good morning to you got a couple of headlines to bring you. the reserve deputy in tulsa oklahoma who clamds he thought he was firing a taser but it was a gun has been instead of a tacer. video released bide authorities shows an undercover operation when the suspect was taken to the ground. bates fired what he thought was his taser. >> i shot him, im sorry. >> an attorney for the harris family says bates was simply a donor who paid big...

Brian young is live tonight. ryan i know you have been digging investigating into bates past what have you learned today? >> well we have been talking to a lot of law enforcement officials just about how even the taser and gun is set up. most law enforcement agencies across the country, the gun is on one side taser on the other side to make sure no one gets confused when they grab either one. 73-year-old robert bateses turned himself into the tulsa county jail before posting bail. the insurance ...