County pays $150k settlement to ex-Tulsa sheriff's official
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August 28, 2016
TULSA, Okla. (AP, Aug. 29, 2016) – A former spokesman for an Oklahoma sheriff's office that was investigated after a reserve deputy fatally shot an unarmed man has reached a $150,000 settlement over his firing.
The Tulsa World reports (http://bit.ly/2cmhLcw ) that Tulsa County will pay the sum to fired Maj. Shannon Clark, who filed a tort claim claiming he was wrongfully terminated by the sheriff's office.
Clark has said he was wrongly blamed for leaking a 2009 internal report that questioned the field training of ex-reserve deputy Robert Bates, who fatally shot Eric Harris in April 2015.
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