I think it is because my image of police is so rattled by their actions in these incidents. That has been true since James Boyd. I simply can't watch people die at the hand of police. Boyd's death was so heinous. It is terrible to watch unarmed people being cut down by police. It is not something I can do over and over again.
April 13, 2013
By Emily Schapiro and Clayton Sandell
...The 73-year-old volunteer (click here) reserve deputy in Oklahoma who fatally shot a suspect in an incident that the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office called "inadvertent" has now been charged with second-degree manslaughter, the Tulsa County District Attorney's Office said today.
April 13, 2013
By Emily Schapiro and Clayton Sandell
...The 73-year-old volunteer (click here) reserve deputy in Oklahoma who fatally shot a suspect in an incident that the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office called "inadvertent" has now been charged with second-degree manslaughter, the Tulsa County District Attorney's Office said today.
Reserve deputy Robert Bates shot and killed Eric Harris April 2 after the deputy allegedly mistook his handgun for a stun-gun, officials said.
"Mr. Bates is charged with Second-Degree Manslaughter involving culpable
negligence. Oklahoma law defines culpable negligence as ‘the omission
to do something which a reasonably careful person would do, or the lack
of the usual ordinary care and caution in the performance of an act
usually and ordinarily exercised by a person under similar circumstances
and conditions,'” Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler said
in a statement today.
"The defendant is presumed to be innocent under the law but we will be prepared to present evidence at future court hearings."...
