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Tremendous grief and tremendous outrage because what we all know for sure is this was a healthy man who had a healthy spine and his neck wasnt broken when he was first taken into police custody. what happened happened to him while he was with the police. thats enough to be alarmed and extraordinarily concerned about what happened in this case. what we need is information. were not getting it. >> mr. murphy thank you so much. billy murphy attorney for family of freddie gray. we appreciate your ti...

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Realize harris had been shot and that is why they were yelling at harris as seen in the body cam video. that is still the case. today the sheriff announced the two deputies had been reassigned and those involved in this had been temporarily suspended because deputies had been receiving threats. protestors have been asking for more scrutiny of other deputies seen in the video. as for robert bates, as you mentioned, the sheriff is defending his training and says that he was adequately trained. att...

Falsify training records and give you field training and weapon certification you did not deserve. how do you respond? >> that is not correct. i have a written piece of paper that was signed off to say i did a good job. >> meanwhile, a state lawmaker is calling for an independent review of tulsas reserve deputy program after the sheriffs office announced last week it would conduct an internal investigation of the shooting. were going to talk to that state lawmaker in the next hour. this brings u...

There is a new development tonight out of oklahoma involving the shooting of an unarmed black man. im sure youve seen the tape. the tulsa world said the county record forged training records for the 73-year-old volunteer reserve deputy. the tulsa world is citing multiple unnamed sources in the report. the deputy shot and killed eric harris. retired insurance executive robert bates is charged with second degree manslaughter for the april 2nd shooting of harris. bates was part of an undercover ope...

And most professional police people. not people that are running around, and i dont mean to denigrate the good ones but theres no question its a concern when you have people that are saying ill go to the toughest part of town. ill be part of a sting operation. police commanders would almost for sure routinely say no no no. bad idea. >> were joined now by mark claxton. we had satellite problems but now we have him. mark were talking about the whole idea of having these reserve deputies and theres...

>> people are going to look at that, mr. bates, and they are going to say how could you make this mistake? how could you think you were going for your taser on your chest tucked into that vest and accidentally pull your weapon. >> well let me say this has happened a number of times around the country. i have read about it in the past. i thought to myself after reading several cases i dont understand how this can happen. you must believe me. it can happen to anyone. >> robert bates claiming it wa...

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 didnt think he should be cha...

He addressed reports that his training records were fallse fied. >> not that im aware of. mr. bates has been to the range several times and is qualified. thats documented. >> meanwhile, in an interview with msnbc news harris 16-year-old son says he wants robert bates and other deputies to pay for what they did. >> they should all go down. they were involved in it. one of the dudes had his knee on his head. i feel that played a part in his death after the shoot issing. i would like all of them to...