Ex-corporal: Tulsa sheriff failed to act on deputy criticism

TULSA — An Oklahoma sheriff's corporal says the leader of the agency should have taken action after an internal memo raised questions about the training and workplace behavior of a volunteer deputy who later fatally shot an unarmed man.

Bill Adams, who left the Tulsa County sheriff's office in 2010, testified in district court Wednesday before a grand jury investigating the agency.

Adams said that the leaked 2009 memo about reserve deputy Robert Bates was "very accurate." Bates has left the agency and is charged with second-degree manslaughter in the shooting.

Adams said Sheriff Stanley Glanz should have taken action in response to the memo or risk being "willfully negligent."

Glanz spokesman Terry Simonson said the sheriff took confidential, administrative action against two employees as a result of the memo.

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