On Wednesday, six months after a volunteer reserve deputy, Bob Bates, shot and killed an unarmed man, Eric Harris, a grand jury indicted Tulsa County Sheriff Stanley Glanz on misconduct charges. The New York Times reports that Glanz will step down as sheriff.
According to the Tulsa World, police supervisors were instructed to falsify training records for the Tulsa reserve deputy who killed a man earlier this month when he accidentally fired his gun instead of a taser.
The 73-year-old volunteer deputy who shot and killed Eric Harris after mistakenly drawing his gun instead of his Taser was charged with second-degree manslaughter on Monday, The New York Times reports.
On Thursday, a 73-year-old reserve deputy working undercover as a member of the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office Violent Crimes Task Force shot and killed a suspect resisting arrest, the Tulsa World reports. The reserve deputy believed he had pulled out his Taser and not a gun, police said.
