article_snippet.sent: Some supervisors at the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office were told to forge Robert Bates Robert Bates training records, and three who refused were reassigned to less desirable duties, Tulsa World newspaper reported.
article_snippet.sent: Claims that the volunteer deputy's records had been falsified emerged "almost immediately" from multiple sources after Robert Bates killed Eric Harris on April 2, reporter Dylan Goforth said.
article_snippet.sent: But the orders apparently started years ago, before Eric Harris death, "back when (Robert Bates was trying to get on as a deputy," reporter Ziva Branstetter told CNN's "New Day.
article_snippet.sent: Branstetter said Branstetter's run into similar obstacles when asking for the names of supervisors who'd signed off on Robert Bates training records.
article_snippet.sent: Even before the Tulsa World story, inconsistencies were apparent in Robert Bates history with the Sheriff's Office.
article_snippet.sent: The lawyer for Harris' family claims Robert Bates wasn't qualified to be on the force, but received preferential treatment because Robert Bates'd made donations to the agency and was a friend of the Sheriff -- an accusation officials deny, saying an accusation officials stand by Robert Bates training record.
article_snippet.sent: It's a controversial claim that hasn't convinced critics of the department, and calls for an independent investigation into the Sheriff's Office and the case are growing.
highlights_snippet.sent: Three supervisors who refused to sign forged records on Robert Bates were reassigned .