Victims speak after ex-Oklahoma cop convicted

Her was found guilty of 18 of the 36 charges which included rape and sexual assault. [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. The judge will decide later whether he will have to serve the sentences consecutively.

The Oklahoma City Police Department welcomed the verdict against its former employee.

And because it’s clear Holtzclaw went after women seemingly without a voice, Black women throughout the nation have driven thought-leadership around this case so the world would know somebody was watching, and somebody cared. Seven armed deputies were stationed around the room.

S.H. was sitting in a truck outside an apartment complex when she was approached by three Oklahoma City Police Department officers.

“It just left a hollow pit in your stomach as you listened to them tell similar story after similar story”.

“We’re gonna ask the judge to make sure that this defendant never sees the light of day”, Prater said. “In those counts where the not verdicts came back, they determined that we didn’t prove those cases beyond a reasonable doubt”. I was told that “these things usually happen” when it’s a “he said, she said type situation” and I should be thankful that, at the very least, there was a note on my attacker’s file.

“In my mind, all I could think of was he was going to shoot me, he was going to kill me”, Jannie Ligons told reporters at a news conference Friday. He was then fired in January, 2015 after more women began coming forward with complaints.

The mother of a teenager who accused an Oklahoma City police officer of raping her clapped a string of guilty verdicts was announced. Holtzclaw’s attorney described him as a model police officer whose attempts to help the drug addicts and prostitutes he came in contact with were distorted.

Holtzclaw allegedly pulled one woman over in her auto and suspected her of drunken driving.

Among those accusers was the woman who launched the police investigation into Holtzclaw.

She testified that Holtzclaw then exposed his penis through his fly and raped her.

Holtzclaw has been on trial since November, charged with 36 counts of first-degree rape, second-degree rape, sexual battery, forcible oral sodomy, procuring lewd exhibition, indecent exposure, burglary and stalking. Sixty percent of black women are sexually assaulted before the age of 18, according to research conducted by the organization Black Women’s Blueprint and reported by BET. Holtzclaw’s lawyer made those issues a cornerstone of his defence strategy.

The defense questioned the credibility of Holtzclaw’s accusers, arguing some of them were high when the purported assaults took place.

The thirteen women testified in front of a jury that had some concerned.

Sex crime detectives testified that they identified and interviewed women Holtzclaw had either searched or been in contact with during his 4 p.m. – 2 a.m. shift.

The critical theory was blasted by black men all over social media site, who appeared confused with the notion that they were somehow responsible.

Terrified, she briefly performed oral sex. He was found guilty on 18. According to CNN, Holtzclaw is biracial: his father is white and his mother Japanese. All of the jurors were white.

A former college football star, Holtzclaw joined the police force after a brief attempt at pursuing an NFL career.

Bill Citty said in a statement Thursday night that the trial of former officer Daniel Holtzclaw was “long and difficult” for all involved.

To the jury, we thank you for your service. The Associated Press does not generally name victims of sexual assault.