In all, Holtzclaw faces 36 charges, including burglary, stalking, indecent exposure, sexual battery, forcible oral sodomy and rape.
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She told of how he threatened her with an outstanding warrant for trespassing.
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The victims say they met Holtzclaw while he was on duty, and prosecutors say the ex-officer intimidated them into not reporting his crimes.
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Crump said other women had earlier called police about Holtzclaw, so “we need to find out how aggressive they (police) were” in their investigation. Zimmerman was acquitted of murder charges in 2013.
The mother of a teenager who accused an Oklahoma City police officer of raping her clapped a string of guilty verdicts was announced. The yearlong probe revealed about 1,000 officers had lost their licenses for sex crimes or other sexual misconduct a six-year period. And of those states that do, great variations exist in whether officers are prosecuted or reported to their state licensing boards. 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.
One of the final people to testify was a girl who was 17 at the time of the sexual assault.
Holtzclaw did not testify in his own defense. A new Associated Press investigation has turned up hundreds of officers fired for sexual offenses ranging from rape to voyeurism to possession of child pornography, and police policies both official and unofficial that make life easy for sex-predator cops. A grandmother in her 50s, the woman said Holtzclaw pulled her auto over, ordered her into the backseat of his squad vehicle, and stood over her as he demanded oral sex. She alleged Holtzclaw touched her bare breasts and later went to her home to force her to expose her genitals and breasts. In brief testimony Tuesday, the woman admitted to taking a hit of marijuana, but said she wasn’t high when Holtzclaw pulled her over. “Who’s going to believe me?'”
Her mother said her daughter didn’t want to talk about the case anymore, but that she was relieved about the conclusion of a “long journey to justice”.
The lead detective in the case, Kim Davis, said after the verdict: “I feel frightful for his family”. “It is a comfort to us all”. Now, if we could get to a place were Holtzclaw’s modus operandi of using race, class and gender to systemically oppress vulnerable populations becomes unviable, then we have made real progress in the world.
Police said they used the Global Positioning System in Holtzclaw’s vehicle and police databases to confirm he had been in contact with numerous women. Meanwhile his attorneys attempted to discredit the survivors, highlighting some of the women’s criminal records for drug abuse and prostitution.
One woman testified while wearing orange scrubs and handcuffs because she had been jailed hours earlier. At left is defense attorney Robert Gray and at right is defense attorney Scott Adams.
A former college football star, Holtzclaw joined law enforcement after a brief attempt at pursuing an NFL career.
Holtzclaw was sacked before the trial began.
Attorney Benjamin Crump, who is representing some of the victims in civil litigation against the city, criticized the national media for not covering the trial in which the victims were “poor, black women”.
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“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.
