Ex-OKC Cop Daniel Holtzclaw Cries After He’s Found Guilty Of Rape

Daniel Holtzclaw cries as the verdicts are read in his trial in Oklahoma City, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015.

(Nate Billings/The Oklahoman via AP).

The 29-year-old Holtzclaw was accused of preying on women in the low-income Oklahoma City neighborhood he patrolled.

Afterward Holtzclaw allegedly told A., “I might be back to see you later”. Holtzclaw, a former Oklahoma City police offic…

A WHITE police officer in the USA is facing a life sentence after being found guilty of raping several black women. The jury found him guilty of 18 counts of sexual battery, rape and other offenses.

Of course, it bears mentioning that for every Daniel Holtzclaw who gets convicted and locked up for life, an uncounted number of police officers get away with similar crimes.

In another racial component of the case, an all-white jury was selected to hear the trial, a development that set off alarm bells in Oklahoma County’s black community and beyond. [Ed: He was convicted on five counts of rape and 13 counts of sexual assault.] It is worth noting that while the city population is almost 40 percent minority, the jury panel is all white. “Who’s going to believe me?'” “I couldn’t believe what was going on was really going on”.

Holtzclaw’s lawyer, meanwhile, described him as a model police officer whose attempts to help the drug addicts and prostitutes he came in contact with were distorted. On Thursday night, the jury opted to believe (most of) them.

Political strategist Donna Brazile simply tweeted that “justice” had been served, following the verdict’s announcement. “I felt like I was in survivor mode, so I had to do what he was making me do”, Sade Hill said.

The AP’s finding is undoubtedly an undercount of the problem of sexual abuse in the police force.

Material from the Associated Press was also used in this report.

That’s exactly who authorities accused Holtzclaw of targeting.

The 57-year-old grandmother, identified in court documents only by those initials, said she was driving home from a dominoes game with friends when Holtzclaw pulled her over and told her to pull up her shirt and pull down her trousers, according to The Associated Press.

About an hour into Holtzclaw observing her like this, S.H. recalls that he began repeatedly pointing out that her chest was exposed.

She was the first victim to testify.

Defense attorney Scott Adams, who declined to comment after the verdicts, sought to use the criminal backgrounds of some of the victims to cast doubt on their testimony.

“The only thing I could say was, ‘Thank you, sir”.

He was found guilty of four counts of first-degree rape, one count of second-degree rape, six counts of sexual battery, four counts of forcible oral sodomy and three counts of procuring lewd exhibition.

Her mother clapped her hands and screamed with joy at the verdict, while Holtzclaw hung his head and sobbed. Holtzclaw raped her on her mother’s front porch.

Numerous women had arrest records or histories of drug abuse.

Holtzclaw was a calculating, manipulative predator who spent his time in uniform terrorizing black women.

Terrified, she briefly performed oral sex. Should Holtzclaw’s horrifying actions serve any objective, hopefully it will be to remind the world of just that.

“Not only is this individual stopping women who fit a profile of members of our society who are confronted rightly or wrongly by police officers all the time”, The Atlantic quoted Oklahoma County prosecutor Gayland Gieger. He questioned the women’s credibility throughout the trial, the station reported. All his accusers are black.

The woman testified she was raped by a police officer but could not identify Holtzclaw specifically and said she thought the officer was a black man shorter than her. She testified she was walking to her cousin’s house when the officer pulled up in his auto.

“I don’t care what they look like, where they go to church, what god they worship, or how much money they make”, he said. “We stand up for people in this community”.

Contributors include Nomaan Merchant in Dallas; Matt Sedensky in West Palm Beach, Florida; and Tim Talley in Oklahoma City.