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Many are asking and wondering how a volunteer demty could mistake a gun for a taser. bates is an insurance company ceo who has donated equipment to the police force. four former blackwater security guards finally sentenced for killing more than a dozen unarmed iraqis in 2007. three of the defendants got 30 years, the other got life. all four of the former contractors claim they acted in self-defense. they promise to appeal what theyre quoting as a perversion of justice. alaska airlines jet f...

Across them. >> a big cleanup, not insignificant. thanks for being with us. watch this documentary its fantastic. >> thank you for joining us "at this hour". >> "legal view" with pamela brown starts right now. this is cnn breaking news. >> hello, everyone. im pamela brown in for ashleigh banfield. welcome to "legal view." breaking news out of tulsa, oklahoma, we are following where a reserve deputy turned himself in to authorities on charges of manslaughter. and soon after, left the jail after...

Is f your breath as if he didnt matter. >> the deadly shot was fired by robert bates. cnn obtained a statement bates gave to the investigators after the shooting. bates rights as harris resisted there was a small window to deploy his taser, i remember thinking, i have to deploy it rapidly, as i still thought there was a strong possibility harris had a gun. bates said he meant to use his taser and he was startled and left in a state of shock and disbelief, once he realized he used his gun instead...

>> he shot him! he shot him! >> he shot me! >> im losing my breath. >> eric harris would later die at the hospital. the deadly shot fired by the reserve deputy, robert bates. and harris resisted arrest bates told investigators he made a quick decision to use the taser. i remember thinking i have to deploy it rapidly as i thought he might still have a gun. he realized he used his gun instead. adding to the volatility here bates is not a full-fledged sheriffs deputy and is a certified peace office...

Makes no sense to me. and i think he was -- it was overkill. >> we know that bates also went onto talk about your brother being a convicted felon, described him as this bad -- i dont want to repeat he said some harsh things about your brother. but i know this is not the same person you know. how do you reconcile what we see on the tape. he was involved in some sort of weapons sting. and the man that you know andre? >> well the man that i know is loving and caring. he loved his son aiden. he love...

1964 to 1965 for one year and never passed probationary period. >> reporter: he says, bates was afforded opportunities within the task force due to significant, long standing financial support of the sheriffs department. >> he could do anything he wanted to. you heard the sheriffs department say, like any other officer could do. but he could do it with no training. he could do it with total access. carte blanche freedom to do what he wants to do. thats incredibly dangerous. to a community. >> re...

>> brooke, after seeing all of that robert bates stills had has the support of the leadership at the police department who had asked prosecutors not to file criminal charges. they say it was an excusable action given his role and his official capacity as a reserve deputy and working in this sting operation. and his defense attorney is also saying that he should not have been charged, that it was an accident of misfortune. >> were about to talk to his attorney but what led to the shooting in the ...

>> reporter: hillary clinton will hold her first campaign event in iowa today. its expected to be a small event. the big rallies were used to seeing, that wont happen until sometime next monday. next month. karen travers, abc news, washington. back to another case of lethal force used by law enforcement in confrontation with a black suspect. this happened on april 2nd. police in tulsa chasing down a suspect who allegedly tried to sell an illegal gun to an undercover officer. during the struggl...

Anyone who comes from families like mine. my dad was a bartender. my mom a stock clerk at kmart a few blocks from here. the notion that their son less than two decades later could run for the highest office in the land as a credible candidate is something that defines us as a nation. >> despite his youth and political strengths, it will be tough for him to overcome the experience connections and the money that jeb bush and hillary clinton, his baby boomer opponents, have. >> now to another case ...

Could not be a better time for hillary to run. and then trapped in a cargo hold and how it forced the flight to turn around. lets talk live in ""cnn newsroom."" good morning. i am carol costello. thank you so much for joining me this morning. a volunteer deputy is facing manslaughter charges for a fatal shooting of an unarmed suspect. it came during a scuffle of the arrest when the 73-year-old auxiliary cop pulled his weapon. >> roll on your stomach now. >> i just shot him. i am sorry. >> a ...