Former Oklahoma City Police Officer Found Guilty Of Multiple Rapes

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

After former Oklahoma City cop Daniel Holtzclaw was convicted Thursday of rape, the conversation on Twitter took a freaky turn.

On Thursday, Holtzclaw cried as the verdict was read.

Thursday night, the jury recommended a sentence totaling 263 years.

Jurors deliberated for more than 40 hours over four days. Judge Timothy R. Henderson will decide January 21 whether he will have to serve the sentences consecutively. Holtzclaw learned his fate Wednesday, which was also his 29th birthday.

A verdict has been reached in the case of a former Oklahoma City police officer accused of sexually victimizing 13 black women. Many critics believed that the deck was stacked against Holtzclaw’s accusers, who were “black, poor, and powerless”, and therefore less likely to be believed, Goldie Taylor wrote in the Daily Beast. Seven armed deputies were stationed around the room.

“He didn’t choose CEOs or soccer moms; he chose women he could count on not telling what he was doing”, McConnell said of the former police officer during the closing arguments of a trial that drew national attention, according to Reuters.

Adams declined to comment after the verdict was read. The Oklahoma City Police Department released the following statement following the guilty verdict: The Oklahoma City Police Department is pleased with the jury’s decision regarding the Daniel Holtzclaw trial. But his conviction is particularly meaningful for the women he, like too many others, targeted, presumably based on the assumption that they could never be believed: women of color.

“A lot of people didn’t think these women could get justice”, Crump said.

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

The woman testified that Holtzclaw stopped her as she was walking in the same neighborhood as most of the other victims and began searching her for drugs.

Holtzclaw’s lawyer insisted his client had been attempting to help the drug addicts and prostitutes he encountered in his work. And as the report, “Say Her Name: Resisting Police Brutality Against Black Women”, by the African American Policy Forum (AAPF) highlights, black women are exceptionally vulnerable to being the target of these assaults. “Historically, we’ve seen the justice system hasn’t protected black women from sexual assault”, she said. He first asked her if she had been drinking, then ordered her out of the auto and into the back seat of his police vehicle. Jurors agreed Holtzclaw forced her to perform a sex act during a traffic stop.

The woman was tearful after the verdict and prayed with supporters outside the courtroom.

A jury found Daniel Holtzclaw guilty of rape, sexual battery and forcible oral sodomy.

Prosecutors alleged that Holtzclaw inappropriately touched the girl while driving her to her mother’s house.

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.

But despite the number of victims, the case presented prosecutors with several challenges.

Holtzclaw’s attorney focused heavily on whether accusers with drug histories and criminal records were credible.