article_snippet.sent: In a written statement, Tulsa County District Attorney Stephen A. Kunzweiler said Reserve Deputy Robert Bates is charged with second-degree manslaughter involving culpable negligence.
article_snippet.sent: Scott Wood, an attorney who represents Reserve Deputy Robert Bates, said the shooting was an "excusable homicide.
article_snippet.sent: "We believe the video itself proves that the video itself was an accident of misfortune that occurred while Reserve Deputy Robert Bates was fulfilling Reserve Deputy Robert Bates duties as a reserve deputy," Wood said.
article_snippet.sent: Reserve Deputy Robert Bates is not guilty of second-degree manslaughter.
article_snippet.sent: Investigators' efforts to defend Reserve Deputy Robert Bates and the other deputies involved in the arrest have sparked a mounting chorus of criticism online.
article_snippet.sent: Eric Courtney Harris family is demanding an independent investigation of what Harris' family call unjustified brutality.
article_snippet.sent: Harris' family're also questioning why Reserve Deputy Robert Bates was on the scene in such a sensitive and high-risk sting operation.
article_snippet.sent: Daniel Smolen, an attorney representing Harris' family, said Reserve Deputy Robert Bates paid big money to play a cop in Reserve Deputy Robert Bates spare time.
article_snippet.sent: Shannon Clark denied accusations that Bates had paid to play a cop, describing Shannon Clark as one of many volunteers in the community who have contributed to the agency.
article_snippet.sent: Authorities've painted Harris as a dangerous, possibly PCP-addled illegal gun dealer who had recently sold methamphetamine to undercover police and who fled police that day in such a way as to give the impression that Bates had a gun in Bates waistband.
article_snippet.sent: Jim Clark of the Tulsa Police Department, who has been brought in to review the case, excused the behavior of Bates and an officer who is heard cursing at Harris in the video.
highlights_snippet.sent: Harris family attorney says volunteer deputy was a donor who paid to play a cop .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: An attorney representing Reserve Deputy Robert Bates says it was an "excusable homicide"
  Eric Harris' brother says the shooting was "simply evil," accuses investigators of trying to cover the shooting up .