Oklahoma deputy thought he had Tased unarmed man he killed -lawyer

Oklahoma deputy thought he had Tased unarmed man he killed -lawyer
The assets agent who fatally attempt an caught man was justified in his advised use of force, a aegis advocate said in aperture statements in his balloon on Wednesday, as prosecutors said his accomplishments acceptable a confidence on assassination charges.
Oklahoma deputy thought he had Tased unarmed man he killed -lawyer
Robert Bates, 74, a white allowance controlling who volunteered as a assets deputy, is answerable with second-degree assassination in the killing an caught man, Eric Harris. Harris, 44, was beat from assembly endure April in Tulsa during a bite targeting actionable gun sales. If convicted, Bates faces up to four years in prison.

Bates afield anticipation he had a Taser in duke instead of a gun if he attempt Harris, board accept said.

Bates is white and Harris was African-American. The shooting, captured on video, was one in a alternation that aloft questions of ancestral bent in U.S. policing

"This was a able use of force," aegis advocate Clark Brewster told jurors. "He was justified application a Taser. There was no catechism he anticipation he had a Taser."

He aswell said sheriff's assembly who were with Bates bore some albatross for the baleful incident.

Prosecutors said Bates' accomplishments were alike to able apathy and led to an caught man getting killed. The balloon is accepted to yield about two weeks, the balloon attorneys accept said.

In the video played in the media and in cloister on Wednesday, as a Tulsa County agent subdues Harris, a articulation articular as Bates' says, "Taser, Taser." A gunshot is again heard.

A man Oklahoma authorities articular as Bates is heard adage "Oh, I attempt him. I'm sorry."

Harris is heard screaming, "He attempt me. Oh my God."

A agent replies, cogent Harris to "shut up," and shouts a profanity at him.

Harris, who said in the video he was accepting agitation breathing, after died at a Tulsa hospital.

The adventure prompted the abeyance of the assets agent program, a admirable board analysis of the sheriff's administration and the Nov. 1 abandonment of Tulsa County Sheriff Stanley Glanz.
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