Next Tuesday evening April 21, at the LaFortune Clubhouse Grill 5501 South Yale; Tulsa Today invites you to join us at 7:00 pm to discuss public safety in our community.
Multiple speakers will address the topic from different and unique perspectives. Lively discussion from audience questions are the norm at Let’s Talk Tulsa public events.
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Updated: People protested the shooting and death of suspected illegal gun dealer Eric Harris last evening in downtown Tulsa.
The Tulsa County Reserve Deputy, Bob Bates, who shot Harris during an arrest turned himself in Tuesday after being charged with 2nd degree manslaughter by Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzeiler.
KOTV reports that nearly 100 people walked from the courthouse down to the sheriff’s office, chanting things like, “No justice, no peace.”
Robert Charles Bates
A Tulsa County reserve deputy who shot and killed a man during an undercover operation on April 2 was charged today with Second-Degree Manslaughter in the death.
Second-Degree Manslaughter charges were filed against Robert Charles Bates, 73, in the shooting death of Eric Courtney Harris, 44. Bates has been a reserve deputy since 2008, and was assigned to the sheriff’s Violent Crimes Task Force.
Jonathan Townsend has announced his candidacy for the Oklahoma House Of Representatives District 73.
District 73 represents much of North Tulsa, parts of Downtown Tulsa and the Pearl and Kendall Whittier Districts. The seat became vacant after Tuesday’s election, where State Representative Kevin Matthews won the special election for the open seat for Senate District 11 after Jabar Shumate vacated his seat.
Cherokee Nation Supreme Court Building.
The first hearing by the Cherokee Nation Supreme Court on the eligibility of Julia Coates to stand for election and serve as Deputy Chief of the Nation was held yesterday.
A motion to dismiss filed by the Cherokee Election Commission was itself dismissed and the Court set a time of 10 a.m. on April 13 to hear the case’s merits.