Former Oklahoma City Police Officer Convicted of Rape

Holtzclaw was sacked in January. Others were outraged that it was taking the jury so long to deliberate in a case with a seeming abundance of evidence.

“We will be here to make sure that this is not swept under the rug”, Crump told reporters after attending a portion of the trial last month.

One of the final people to testify was a girl who said she was 17 at the time of the sexual assault and Holtzclaw raped her on her mother’s front porch.

Daniel Holtzclaw, right, looks at the jury as he is escorted from the courtroom after the verdicts in his trial.

She told of how he threatened her with an outstanding warrant for trespassing.

The first woman to come forward was a grandmother in her 50s, who went to the police after Holtzclaw stopped her on June 18, 2014.

An AP investigation backs up the mom’s instinct.

In his letter firing Holtzclaw, Chief William Citty called the officer’s alleged misdeeds, “The greatest abuse of police authority I have witnessed in my 37 years as a member of this agency”.

The rape convictions that could put a fired Oklahoma City police officer behind bars for life are vindication for some of the women he targeted, and also a reminder of how hard it is to achieve justice in such cases. Holtzclaw was found guilty of 18 of the 36 counts. Adams’s arguments fed into disgusting stereotypes about women and, more specifically, black female sexuality – so much so that even women jurors in many cases are swayed to accept the mythology that victims of sexual assault are responsible for their own rapes. The AP’s yearlong probe revealed about 1,000 officers had lost their licenses for sex crimes or other sexual misconduct over a six-year period.

Toni Morrison once commented that racism will be over when a white man is convicted of raping a black woman.

The Oklahoman’s Kyle Schwab has covered every moment of the trial. They picked up deliberations Tuesday morning at 10:30. Together, they hurried to report the assault to police. “All kinds of sex offenders, particularly intelligent ones, they pick their victims because they know they’re less likely to be believed”. She said she was driving home after 2am when Holtzclaw pulled her over.

The woman recalled multiple encounters with an officer she came to call “Spike”, for the way he styled his hair. After showering, she changed into a hospital gown and was transferred to various rooms. Detectives connected her assault to a previously unsolved report, then discovered Holtzclaw’s pattern of sexual abuse. “That’s what I kept saying to myself”. He offered her a ride, and then proceeded to follow her into her house, and allegedly raped her in her bed. I was traumatized. I went to therapy and had a stroke.

He was asking me, why do I choose the type of baby daddies that I have.

These are just three of many, many sex crimes committed by USA police officers over the past several years. To me, it calls up the conundrum many mixed-race Asians face, sometimes accepted as white, sometimes regarded as “other”. I never trusted a cop. I don’t want to have to take you to jail. She watched him walk away, still afraid that he might shoot her.

Among the charges 29-year-old Daniel Holtzclaw was found guilty of were four counts of first-degree rape. After all of the verdicts were read the amount of time he could potentially spend in jail totaled 263 years.