Former Dallasite helped shine spotlight on Holtzclaw case

Benjamin Crump, a prominent civil rights attorney who is representing several of the victims, promised a series of forthcoming civil lawsuits against the city to shed light on the questions.

She immediately reported him to the police.

Crump said the outcome was justice only on the criminal side of the case.

Activists and analysts accused mainstream media outlets of failing to cover the case because the women weren’t “perfect” victims.

Most of the women who testified against the former cop said that they did not think going to the police with their experiences would have any effect. Holtzclaw’s crimes were based on assumptions of privilege and credibility that have eroded beneath his feet. Prosecutors identified a pattern to Holtzclaw’s behavior, arguing that Holtzclaw backgrounded his victims and specifically targeted African-American women who had previous arrests or a history of drug possession, in the hopes that their allegations would not be believed. He also forced her to perform oral sex, she said. He often drove his victims to remote locations.

St. Louis University law professor Roger L. Goldman, who studies police licensing, told the Los Angeles Times that California is one of six USA states that generally doesn’t have the power to decertify officers for any reason involving on-duty misconduct, though California can decertify an officer who commits fraud or if “there was a mistake in getting into the police academy”. “He’s in control, he’s the police, he has the badge”.

“He didn’t choose CEOs or soccer moms”.

Another victim, Shardayreon “Sharday” Hill, told reporters that she was handcuffed to hospital bed when Holtzclaw “started to manipulate me”. “He counted on the fact no one would believe them and no one would care”. “I didn’t do anything wrong”. I had no record. Holtzclaw, she said, “fondled” her and “did certain things to me”. “So all I can say is, I was innocent and he just picked the wrong lady to stop that night”. He faces up to 263 years in prison, including 30-year sentences on each of four counts of first-degree rape.

Daniel Holtzclaw, who turned 29 Thursday, sobbed as the verdict was read aloud. He will be sentenced January 21. For them it’s about whatever’s going on in the moment. Many rape victims never get justice.

Jain Marsh is the Vice President of Victims Services for the Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN). “It doesn’t mean they didn’t believe the victims”.

Low arrest, prosecution, and conviction rates are some of the factors that discourage survivors from reporting to police. And of those states that do, great variations exist in whether officers are prosecuted or reported to their state licensing boards.

No time to piece through the unsafe way in which racial politics, jury rigging and police bias could have given us a much different result. Calling the police felt illogical, they said, because Holtzclaw was a police officer.

During the trial, 13 women testified that Holtzclaw sexually assaulted them.

“In America, it’s an extremely rare occurrence for an all-white jury to convict a white man, particularly a white police officer, of crimes against black women”, King wrote. Holtzclaw, a former Oklahoma City police officer, was facing dozens of charge…

Although the guilty verdict received widespread national and global coverage, some critics claimed that interest in the case had been slow to develop because the charges involved sexual assault on black women.

“We are satisfied with the jury’s decision and firmly believe justice was served”, it said in a statement.