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Manslaughter Charge for Tulsa Wannabe Cop

Shot and killed unarmed man.

The volunteer sheriff’s deputy in Tulsa, Oklahoma who shot and killed an unarmed man has been charged with second-degree manslaughter by the district attorney. Bob Bates said he meant to pull his Taser but instead drew his gun on a suspect who was fleeing a sting operation involving stolen guns. Bates wasn't an officer but a volunteer. Yesterday, The Daily Beast’s Kate Briquelet reported that Bates had donated thousands of dollars’ worth of equipment to the department before becoming a deputy. Tulsa Sheriff Stanley Glanz has said that Bates has been his friend for 50 years and that the shooting was a mistake. “How many errors are made in an operating room every week?”