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Welcome back developing now in the last hour the tulsa county sheriff stanley glanz for the first time publicly addressed the shooting of eric harris by reserve deputy robert bates. glanz defended his offices handling of the shooting disputing claims his office falsified training records and addressed calls for discipline against other deputies involved. >> we have an incident where a life was taken, and thats the business were in is life and deaths occur every day in law enforcement. theres bee...

Proper training for the job. the tulsa world newspaper reports that robert bates qualified on a revolver he carried during a fatal shooting. and his gun was not on the list of firearms deputies can carry on duty. today the sheriff said the use of that gun was a simple mistake. offering this explanation. >> bob did mistake a gun for a taser. he mistook it. >> joining me now, dan, the family attorney, the harris family attorney. thank you for being here first of all. >> thank you, reverend. i appr...

Publicly about the man she called her soul mate. >> very hurtful. he was saying he couldnt breathe. it was hurtful to see how he was treated even after he was shot. >> im out of breath. >> [ bleep ] your breath. >> reporter: they want more scrutiny of other deputies who can be heard yelling at harris. what is it that you want? >> justice. them to admit they were wrong. >> you shot me! >> reporter: the sheriffs office says the other deputies did not realize harris had been shot. >> would you stan...

That was from the very beginning a bit of a train wreck. he started, faith, it seemed as if he started by vocally expressing some sort of angst about the fact the press hadnt really shown up at his department for other news conferences, and then he revealed the fbi, according to them theyve completed their investigation already, theyve cleared the department. we have not independently confirmed that we should note but it was a bizarre news conference. faith, did you learn anything from that? >> ...

Case throughout "the rundown." now to developments in another police-involved incident, the tulsa county sheriffs office will be holding a press conference to talk about the shooting death of eric harris. harris was killed by reserve deputy robert bates who says he mistook his gun for a taser. in an nbc news exclusive, the mother of harriss son says she forgives bates but still wants the truth. harriss son says he wants bates and the other deputies involved to pay for what they did. >> they sh...

Not complete and that they dont prove bates was adequately trained. we spoke with the mother of harriss child over the weekend, his 16-year-old son adan. heres some of what adan had to say. >> they should all go down. they were all involved in it. the one of the dudes had his knee on his head. i felt like that played a part in his death after the shooting. so i would like all of them to get what they deserve. >> reporter: bates is charged with second-degree manslaughter hes expected to be arraig...

Havent been suspended. well take action on that once some of the court cases are resolved with mr. bates. this office reviews all of its policies on a monthly basis taking each chapter in our records systems and looking at it. i know theres been a lot of concern about lost records. were trying to locate all of those. some of those are administrative in nature. and we will provide those records as we find them. with that i would like to take a few questions. >> reporter: there has been a lot said...

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Properly trained? >> who? >> reporter: the attorney for eric harriss family said you referred to him earlier, he said the training records released so far do not prove bates was adequately trained. how can you be so sure? >> i know he has received a lot of training and thats documented and he has those documents. and i believe they were released by his lawyer. >> reporter: thats right, but the attorney for eric harriss family claims theres so many gaps in the documents and the fact your office i...

Also another police story we have been closely following is that of robert bates, of course the reserved deputy out of arizona that mistakenly shot and killed a suspect when he says he was trying to tais him. we will speak with his attorney. scottwood. this has become a lot about document was he properly trained or pushed on? there is a big paper coming after him in the tulsa area. the attorney says he can beat the case. well test it for you. remember the good weekend we had in the northeast? ...