Group to submit petition seeking grand jury in Tulsa killing

Source: AP

By JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Prompted by a volunteer deputy's fatal shooting of an unarmed man during a sting operation, a civil rights group said Tuesday it has collected enough signatures for a grand jury to investigate Tulsa County Sheriff Stanley Glanz and the agency's reserve deputy program.

Marq Lewis, an organizer of We the People Oklahoma, told The Associated Press in an interview that his group has so far gathered more than 6,000 signatures from registered county voters to authorize an order to impanel a grand jury.

The group needed 5,000 under state law, and Lewis said he plans to file the signatures with officials sometime this week to certify the names. Lewis said they'll keep collecting signatures until then.

"We had asked Glanz to step down, but this is actually the only recourse as citizens we had," Lewis said. "I don't think they actually thought we were going to go through with it."

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