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Backed away. totally transparent. thats the kind of man were talking about. so -- >> in the b.a.r.t. shooting where the officer was on the platform and he thought he was grabbing his taser and grabbed his gun. said sorry immediately. >> your lead in you can be a police officer if you pay money. 128 reserve officers. many of those dont have the financial ability to support the sheriffs office, the tulsa police and the community like mr. bates has. how does that make him bad? its a complete false ...

Gotten this training. i mean that takes a long time to accumulate that many hours. he had not gotten that training and the people who are over that reserve deputy program were told either, you know you need to sign these documents saying he received this training and when they didnt do it they were given lesser jobs or reassigned to other areas. >> so the records were doctored is what youre telling me, based upon what firearms training firearms certification, even though he didnt have the suffic...

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It would have been during that process of receiving those training hours. >> just so i get this on the record here, the sheriffs office told cnn that the tulsa world reporter cannot validate his or her sources and claims anonymity, which leaves us skeptical the claims are unsubstantiated and deceptive. let me move on. the office also announced this morning it will conduct this internal review in the wake of what youre breaking here of this deputy reserve program, which is exactly what your paper...

Bates told him he wasnt making money as a police officer. he probably chose correctly and became a wealthy insurance executive. he did that for a long time. then in 2007 or 2008 became a reserve deputy. >> okay. dylan, thank you. keep asking those questions. next, one congressman says it is quote/unquote open season on black men in america. hear his reasons and the backlash against him. well speak with him live. plus our chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta has everyone talking today b...

>> not that i am aware of, no, he has been trained. >> he has 300 hours -- almost 300 hours of cleata credit training and the state has 25 hours of continuing education, so he is well in excess of somebody meeting minimum requirements. >> nobody ever expressed concerns about his training at the sheriffs office? >> never to me. just the opposite. >> there has been talk the ceo has been involved in hundreds of operations, and now all that is under questions, and including this entire program, some...

This new report is important and potentially devastating because officials have claimed that bates had all the training he was supposed to. >> the newspaper also obtained copies of bates training records but records may not provide a full picture of his qualifications obviously because authenticity of the records are not being questioned. ryan young has more details on this. hes joining us now. ryan, what more are you learning? >> reporter: kate and john, a lot of people talking about this, obvi...

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Sometime before the shooting before the shooting, supervisors were "ordered" to falsify robert bates training records giving him credit for field training he never took and firearms certification he should not have received. now, thats according to multiple unnamed sources who also told the paper at least three of bates supervisors were transferred after refusing to signoff on his state required training. nbc news has not independently confirmed the tulsa worlds report and sheriffs office is pus...

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