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Pay-to-Play Cop Bob Bates Found Guilty in Fatal Shooting of Black Man

Facing Jail

A jury Wednesday recommended that Bob Bates, a Tulsa volunteer sheriff’s deputy, serve four years in prison for fatally shooting an unarmed black man last year when he mistook his gun for a Taser.

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