article_snippet.sent: That decision prompted a response from the family of Eric Harris, the man Bates killed.
article_snippet.sent: Robert Bates, 73, was working as a reserve deputy for the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office on April 2 when he was involved the arrest of Eric Harris in a weapons sting operation.
article_snippet.sent: Robert Bates claims Robert Bates meant to stun Eric Harris with a Taser after Eric Harris fled from officers, but mistakenly shot Eric Harris with a gun instead.
article_snippet.sent: Robert Bates has said the shooting was accidental.
article_snippet.sent: Robert Bates has apologized to the Harris family, as has Sheriff Stanley Glanz.
article_snippet.sent: The lawyer for the family of the man who was killed claims that 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 Tulsa County Sheriff.
article_snippet.sent: The Tulsa World newspaper reported some supervisors in the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office were told to forge Robert Bates records and were reassigned when some supervisors in the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office refused.
article_snippet.sent: Over the weekend, one of Robert Bates lawyers released most of Robert Bates training documents and said Bates' lawyers prove Robert Bates had proper law enforcement training.
article_snippet.sent: Robert Bates releases training records for Tulsa deputy charged in killing .
highlights_snippet.sent: Robert Bates said Robert Bates meant to subdue a suspect with a Taser but accidentally shot a suspect .
  