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But meantime there are new developments in tulsa, oklahoma today. i want you to take you to this story, where a reserve deputy turned himself over to authorities, robert bates charge and take a look at the video and it is disturbing. >> i shot him, im sorry. >> this morning the attorney for harriss family speaking to my colleague tamron hall about accusations that bates paid to play by contributing money and equipment to have access to the sheriffs department. >> its entirely inappropriate for a...

Harris. bates claims he mistakely grabbed his gun instead of his taser. an alaskan airline was forced to make an emergency landing after discovering an airline worker fell a sleep in the cargo hold. the ramp agent emerged from the front of the cargo hold. the employee was treated and later discharged from the local hospital. some passengers on board described what happened. >> it went on for quite a while. ten minutes or so. >> we just thought -- the two of us thought something was stuck in th...

An accident. lets get more from ed lavandera. >> reporter: john and christine, the shooting death of eric harris is under a great deal of scrutiny. 73-year-old robert bates has been charged with manslaughter. sheriffs officers in tulsa say this shooting was an accident of misfortune and bates should not be charged with criminal conduct. he was acting well within his duty as a reserve deputy in this case. his attorney spoke with us and made that case. >> he is very upset about what happened. he f...

Or sinister. >> the last part of that statement refers to the donations robert bates made in the past to the tulsa sheriffs office as well as contributions he made to the sheriffs re-election campaign. hes been a reserve deputy for the county since 2008. he posted his $25,000 bond. he left the jail. earlier this month, officials say he was acting as support for this undercover sting operation when 44-year-old eric harris up and ran. other deputies managed to tackle him, and that is when bates fi...

These details that have come out about how much money this man had given to the department? >> well i think its disturbing. i think its -- its telling that this is how individuals that are 73 years old go about getting on special task force here in tulsa. >> i know the family has described this as pay for play. what do they mean by that? >> well its entirely inappropriate for a 7 three-year-old reserve deputy to be involved in this kind of undercover string operation. the only explanation for wh...

A taser. lets get more from cnns ed lavandera. >> reporter: john and christine, the shooting death of eric harris is under scrutiny especially since the reserve deputy robert bates, 73 has been charged with manslaughter. officers here in tulsa and his attorney says this shooting was an accident of misfortune and bates should not be charged with criminal conduct. he was acting within his duty as a reserve deputy in this case. his attorney spoke with us and made that case. >> he is very upset abou...

That should be happening in the city. >> all right ryan thank you very much. i want to bring in now scott wood deputy robert bates attorney. i appreciate you coming back to talk to us. hes been referred to by your colleague, they say some people are painting your client in a bad and sinister light. let me just ask you about this fundamental question, though because you heard ryan young laying out that he bought cars donated to the sheriffs re-election campaign. there are people who say that adds...

The fact that many people are now suggesting while what was bates doing there, what does a reserve deputy really do? are they qualified to be involved in these sorts of operations like this in which he admittedly says he accidentally used his gun instead of his taser. the lawyer says that all of this is sort of distracting people away from the public service that reserved deputies do perform. will there are some 100 here in tulsa alone. they are going to be fighting these charges. he says bates ...

Harris died later. >> he believed he had a less lethal device and he was going administer a less lethal taser probe when in reality he had a firearm in his hand. >> reporter: the sheriffs office says reserve deputies are members of the public. doctors, banker, even retired police officers who receive varying degrees of training. bates donated thousands of dollars in equipment and the authorities say his role in this operation was in a backup capacity. >> if he had as much training as he supposed...

Officers. >> his attorney maintains that he was c.l.e.a.t. trained and certified. this is not the same standard police officers are trained with. >> well you know c.l.e.a.t. certification is completely different than field training which is what a standard deputys going to have. you know hundreds of hours and then thousands of hours of field training. ive not seen any field training records for mr. bates. theyve produced some c.l.e.a.t. summary training records. again, completely different than ...