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>> what we were told is that the supervisors were told to sign off on 250 hours of training. and most of that, he did not -- virtually, all of that, he did not have. and then the supervisors at the gun range were told to sign off on his handgun qualification, even though he did not qualify. >> reporter: but bates stands by his credentials stating that he was fully trained and qualified to be on the sting operation involving harris. and that he has documentation to show he completed the necessary...

Am. ive been involved in several hundred of these. i do clean-up when they are done. i take notes, i take photographs and that is my job. >> and when you got involved in in struggle mr. bates, did any of the other deputies or officers say help us taze him, use your taser? >> no. matt i yelled taser, taser, as required in training. the deputy below me ducked he pulled away from it so that i could -- now, ive never, you know -- first and foremost let me apologize to the family of eric harris. this...

>> bates is charged with second degree manslaughter in the case. currently free on a $25,000 bail. gun fights and burning vehicles after the arrest of a suspected drug cartel leader. it all happens right on the border of a u.s. town. well have that coming up here. also, airport screeners. behaving badly. one official says, it happens more often than you think.

The deputys apology and ongoing investigation into his credentials. >> 73-year-old robert bates charged with second degree manslaughter after he used his pistol instead of a stun gun killing eric harris. in an interview with nbcs "today" show, bates cant believe it happened. >> first and foremost, let me apologize to the family eric harris. the second worst thing or first that ever happened to me in my life. i had cancer a number of years ago. i didnt think i was going to get there. luckily i wa...

Brother of the man that was killed. and the tulsa world reported that the supervisors were ordered to falsify his records after the shooting but his attorneys vehemently denied that and if that is true how important is that for the sheriffs department? >> if that is true then this case goes from the one bad judgment of one individual in an isolated incident to some sort of epidemic or some sort of force-wide problem in the police department in law enforcement. and if that ends up being the case ...

As you mentioned, 64 pages worth of documents and this is the most detailed picture weve got goten so far of robert bates training background. this is information that has been requested of the sheriffs department in tulsa since just after the shooting. the sheriffs department citing investigatory reasons for not releasing them. now clearly the attorneys for robert bates going on the offensive here in starting to provide a lot of the documentation. what we see in these documents is several years...

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Im poppy harlow, youre in in the cnn newsroom. its 4:00 here on the east coast. this just into cnn. we are going through dozens of pages of documents given to us by the attorney for robert bates. hes the tulsa, oklahoma volunteer sheriffs deputy who shot and killed a suspect on april 2nd after he made a terrible mistake mistaking his gun for his taser. so far, no one has been able to come up with the paperwork showing he got the adequate training required to carry a gun and a badge on the street...

Deputy reserve officer, robert bates, said he accidentally pulled his gun he says instead of his taser. he meant to strike harris with a taser and instead he shot and killed him. lets bring in our panel to talk about this. harry houck, cheryl dorsey is a retired lapd sergeant and the author of the book "black and blue the creation of a manifesto." thank you both for being with me i appreciate it. harry, let me turn to you first. looking at this the lawyer has now turned over to cnn these documen...

Reaction to this? >> first of all, i find it interesting that mr. bates attorney would try to discredit the deputy that he says is sitting in jail charged with murder because, after all, isnt mr. bates charged with something very heinous? so who do you believe? and understand just because those documents exist, we this necessarily know if theyre valid because there is that rumor out there that those who didnt speak the company speak and werent willing to falsify records were moved. so its very t...