Petition drive nets 6,000 signatures for investigation

Ponca City Now - June 10, 2015 9:01 am

TULSA, Okla. (AP) – A civil rights group says it’s collected enough signatures for a grand jury to investigate a Tulsa County sheriff and his agency’s reserve deputy program.

The move comes after a volunteer deputy shot and killed an unarmed man during in April.

We the People Oklahoma organizer Marq Lewis says the group gathered more than 6,000 signatures from registered county voters to impanel a grand jury.

 

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