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Nbc's kevin tibbles has that report. >> reporter: 73-year-old robert bates was formally charge edd with second degree manslaughter. >> how do you feel about the charges? >> i feel they are unwarranted and shouldn't have been brought. >> reporter: he was acting as backup when the suspect bolt eded. 44-year-old eric harris was selling an illegal gun. a scuffle ensued picked up by police body cam. bates pulled what he thought was his taser, but instead, fired his gun. harris later died. bates claims in the heat of the moment he mistook his pistol for his taser. there are more than 100 reserved de...

Supported by a testable theory, there's no peer reviewed articles that would support this, there's no known rate of error, it's not generally accepted by the scientific community. it's not something in most courts that would be admissible as evidence. >> wealthy people who want to -- who are donating money to law enforcement and get to be reserve officers, i guess they do go through some training, there's different levels of training, it also sounds like this guy bates is also close friends with the sheriff, they're fishing buddies and the sheriff has -- gave a press conference saying how clos...

At any level to get prosecution. so they have to come up with a theory that's realistic, work and can somehow overcome the giant obstacle of the florida stand your ground law, which defeated a lot of righteous prosecutions. here is what i think the theory is. this guy is self appointed vigilante want to be cop who thought, maybe because somebody happened to be black, that he was a crook up to no good. i do suspect there was racial profiling in the mind-set of george zimmerman. so he the wannabe cop, self appointed vigilante runs after the kid. he is running them down. then in some moments very...

Bates pulled what he thought was his taser, but instead fired his gun. >> i shot him. i'm sorry. >> harris later died. bates claims in the heat of the moment, he mistook his pistol for his taser. there are more than 100 reserve deputies with the tulsa sheriff's office. nationwide that number is about 50,000. in many jurisdictions, reservists make financial contributions to the department. bates has contributed thousands. >> if you have enough money, you get to go play cop. >> bates had once been a police officer and has had more than 400 hours of training as a reservist. logging 3,000 hours of...