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You question whether he even should have been going for his taser. can you explain that? >> well i dont think there was any need for the taser. it all happened so very quickly. but if you look back at the video, the officer who had taken down mr. harris was trying to get him turned over and get him handcuffed. there was a split second later when bates fired the taser or thought he was firing the taser and actually fired the gun. there was no need for it. and the problem with that it makes me thi...

His gun went off. >> reporter: officials say robert bates inadvertently grabbed his handgun instead of his taser. the attorney for the family of eric harris says they dont know how an accident like this could have happened. there are questions why robert bates was involved in an operation like this. we were told he was there in a back-up capacity. attorney for the family of eric harris said he paid his way after making thousands of dollars of donations and equipment to the sheriffs office here i...

Excessive force by police are igniting the debate for police reform in tulsa. a reserve deputy is facing manslaughter charges after shooting and killing a man after a chase. perhaps the larger issue, why was this reserve duty by all measures not a member of the force allowed on an undercover operation? and in south carolina the passenger in walter scotts car before he was gunned down has been identified and is now speaking out. he says his friend did not deserve to die. were talking to the presi...

New. can republican presidential candidate marco rubio sell that message to the next generation of voters? plus two kids walking home alone picked up by police again. their parents say its free range parenting. theres a question if its too much freedom. lets talk live in the "cnn newsroom" newsroom". good morning. im carol costello. thank you for being with me. a volunteer deputy officer accused in the shooting death of an unarmed suspect and now charged with manslaughter. 73-year-old robert bat...

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. ive never heard of this slip and capture, youve been in touch with bates attorney since his client was charged with second degree manslaughter, whats he saying now, whats the latest? >> well, they say that robert bates is not guilty of this manslaughter charge, that he w...

All right. are we going to head out to tulsa, oklahoma right now? mr. bates has now turned himself into authorities. i think hes charged with second-degree manslaughter in the shooting death of a suspect. you saw that terrible video. there was a sting going down. police moved in to arrest a suspect. they wrestled him to the ground. this 73-year-old reserve deputy pulled what he thought was his taser ready to taser this suspect and then he inadvertently reached for his gun instead and shot the su...

>> now, we are also hearing new audio from officer slager. we have the awedy here for you. this is slager and another officer immediately following the deadly shooting. >> officer slager was heard on a phone call with a woman believed to be his wife. >> now we want to got you to oklahoma where a white reserve deputy will face criminal charges. accused of killing a black man. he told investigators he accidentally fired his gun instead of his taser during a struggle with police. >> the deputy robe...

Controversial shooting involving police in the u.s. state of oklahoma. robert bates will face second-degree manslaughter charges after killing a black man, he says he accidentally fired his gun instead of his taser. >> hes a white reserve deputy who worked as a full-time police officer police officer just one year and that was decades ago. >> just moments before he was shot -- >> im sorry. im sorry. >> eric harris was captured on surveillance video appearing to sell a 9 millimeter semi-automatic...

Department. >> the sheriffs department calling it an accident because he grabbed his gun insaid of his taser. harriss family said he was treated inhumanely. kevin tibbles has the latest xbr if he had much training as he supposedly had, he would definitely know a .357 from a -- a taser. >> reporter: the 73-year-old reserve deputy did appear this morning and has been released on $25,000 bail after admittedly saying that he mistakingly used his gun instead of his taser during the sting operation in...

Good evening. im erin burnett, "outfront," breaking news. protests across the nation tonight after another deadly shooting involving a white officer and an unarmed black man. youre looking at the crowd taking to the street right here in new york. theyre blocking traffic on new yorks brooklyn bridge at this moment. theres also another rally going on in san francisco already, as you can see, crowds are gathered there with signs that read "black lives matter." these are scenes repeated in several o...