A white reserve deputy sheriff in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was charged on Monday with second-degree manslaughter after fatally shooting a black suspect earlier this month. The deputy, 73-year-old Robert Bates, shot Eric Harris during a police sting after allegedly mistaking his own gun for a Taser.
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