Tulsa Deputy Robert Bates' Training Was Supervised by Accused Murderer

Last week when he apologized for the accidental death of Eric Harris , 73-year-old reserve deputy Robert Bates attempted to explain how he'd been certified to serve as a law enforcement official in Tulsa, Okla., and casually mentioned that a supervisor had signed off on his training, and that said supervisor was "now in jail for first-degree murder 40 miles east of here, in Mayes County." The Daily Beast didn't , and dug into the records of former deputy Warren Crittenden , discovering that the