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The 13 black women who say Daniel Holtzclaw ? them while he was on duty as an Oklahoma City police officer have largely been ignored by the national media and human rights activists.
Until now.
Daniel Holtzclaw, 28, is standing trial for ? or sexually abusing 13 African-American women. Prosecutors are trying Holtzclaw for 36 counts including ? , sexual battery, forcible oral ? and stalking. Holtzclaw has pleaded not guilty and says he had nothing to do with the allegations against him.
Holtzclaw is essentially saying all 13 Black women are lying.
It’s deplorable that Holtzclaw may have singled out women for violent sexual acts, but it’s also insidious that he directed his racial hatred specifically toward unsuspecting Black women.
Where was the outrage? Where are the protesters?
Holtzclaw allegedly told the women that if they didn’t comply, they would be arrested or physically harmed. The first victim to come forward was a 57-year-old grandmother who claimed Holtzclaw forced her to perform oral sex.
Prosecutors say Holtzclaw methodically ran background checks to single out women who had outstanding criminal warrants for drug and sex violations. Were these women pristine citizens? No. Did they deserve to be ? ? Absolutely not.
And they shouldn’t be forgotten or overlooked either.
Holtzclaw didn’t just ? women randomly; he intentionally preyed on Black women, women who were living in obscurity, and women who didn’t have the legal legitimacy to fight back.
And Holtzclaw knew it. For many, these Black women were, and are, invisible.
The national media forgot these women because they were poor, had been previously incarcerated, and, for some journalists, the women’s stories, no matter how similar they were, lacked credibility.
So now, four weeks into the trial, Holtzclaw’s defense attorneys are aggressively going after the victims. The lawyers are trying to discredit the women one by one, digging up their drug use, drinking habits and suspended driver’s licenses to present to the jury 13 flawed women.
http://blackamericaweb.com/2015/12/01/where-are-the-protests-for-the-oklahoma-city-? -accusers/
should their be protest for this?
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Hope he will die in jail
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Lowest of the low rapists should have their hands removed.
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. The lawyers are trying to discredit the women one by one, digging up their drug use, drinking habits and suspended driver’s licenses to present to the jury 13 flawed women
A suspended drivers license means she's unrapeable? -
assassassassass
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r.prince18 wrote: »
The 13 black women who say Daniel Holtzclaw ? them while he was on duty as an Oklahoma City police officer have largely been ignored by the national media and human rights activists.
Until now.
Daniel Holtzclaw, 28, is standing trial for ? or sexually abusing 13 African-American women. Prosecutors are trying Holtzclaw for 36 counts including ? , sexual battery, forcible oral ? and stalking. Holtzclaw has pleaded not guilty and says he had nothing to do with the allegations against him.
Holtzclaw is essentially saying all 13 Black women are lying.
It’s deplorable that Holtzclaw may have singled out women for violent sexual acts, but it’s also insidious that he directed his racial hatred specifically toward unsuspecting Black women.
Where was the outrage? Where are the protesters?
Holtzclaw allegedly told the women that if they didn’t comply, they would be arrested or physically harmed. The first victim to come forward was a 57-year-old grandmother who claimed Holtzclaw forced her to perform oral sex.
Prosecutors say Holtzclaw methodically ran background checks to single out women who had outstanding criminal warrants for drug and sex violations. Were these women pristine citizens? No. Did they deserve to be ? ? Absolutely not.
And they shouldn’t be forgotten or overlooked either.
Holtzclaw didn’t just ? women randomly; he intentionally preyed on Black women, women who were living in obscurity, and women who didn’t have the legal legitimacy to fight back.
And Holtzclaw knew it. For many, these Black women were, and are, invisible.
The national media forgot these women because they were poor, had been previously incarcerated, and, for some journalists, the women’s stories, no matter how similar they were, lacked credibility.
So now, four weeks into the trial, Holtzclaw’s defense attorneys are aggressively going after the victims. The lawyers are trying to discredit the women one by one, digging up their drug use, drinking habits and suspended driver’s licenses to present to the jury 13 flawed women.
http://blackamericaweb.com/2015/12/01/where-are-the-protests-for-the-oklahoma-city-? -accusers/
should their be protest for this?
the protests outrage/convo is for the overall longstanding culture/history of police violence against black people.. should this receive more coverage sure.. but there is no sense in people inevitably putting there victimization vs one another. -
Should he be forgiven too?
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I know the women fam have self respect and would taken whatever charge over sucking pig ? .. unless there was a gun to their heads i dont see a reason to allow yourself to be sexually abused
He mustve known who he could pull that ? on -
I know the women fam have self respect and would taken whatever charge over sucking pig ? .. unless there was a gun to their heads i dont see a reason to allow yourself to be sexually abused
He mustve known who he could pull that ? on
Prosecutors say Holtzclaw methodically ran background checks to single out women who had outstanding criminal warrants for drug and sex violations. -
Down syndrome ass cac. Should be lynched and thrown to gators
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supergangster wrote: »Hope he will die in jail
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. The lawyers are trying to discredit the women one by one, digging up their drug use, drinking habits and suspended driver’s licenses to present to the jury 13 flawed women
A suspended drivers license means she's unrapeable?
Right. Ion't know what they looking into drinking habits for either......
Take advantage of a woman who is ? or gets ? and them laws still gonna throw the book at you....... -
Case does deserve more attention than it has gotten
The officer was arrested, but sexual assault convictions, especially in the cases of white men against blk women are next to non existent
And the sexual violence blk women face from law enforcement is something that rarely is included in police misconduct narratives
Have to make sure that changes and we remain vigilant
Awareness will go a long way -
playmaker88 wrote: »r.prince18 wrote: »
The 13 black women who say Daniel Holtzclaw ? them while he was on duty as an Oklahoma City police officer have largely been ignored by the national media and human rights activists.
Until now.
Daniel Holtzclaw, 28, is standing trial for ? or sexually abusing 13 African-American women. Prosecutors are trying Holtzclaw for 36 counts including ? , sexual battery, forcible oral ? and stalking. Holtzclaw has pleaded not guilty and says he had nothing to do with the allegations against him.
Holtzclaw is essentially saying all 13 Black women are lying.
It’s deplorable that Holtzclaw may have singled out women for violent sexual acts, but it’s also insidious that he directed his racial hatred specifically toward unsuspecting Black women.
Where was the outrage? Where are the protesters?
Holtzclaw allegedly told the women that if they didn’t comply, they would be arrested or physically harmed. The first victim to come forward was a 57-year-old grandmother who claimed Holtzclaw forced her to perform oral sex.
Prosecutors say Holtzclaw methodically ran background checks to single out women who had outstanding criminal warrants for drug and sex violations. Were these women pristine citizens? No. Did they deserve to be ? ? Absolutely not.
And they shouldn’t be forgotten or overlooked either.
Holtzclaw didn’t just ? women randomly; he intentionally preyed on Black women, women who were living in obscurity, and women who didn’t have the legal legitimacy to fight back.
And Holtzclaw knew it. For many, these Black women were, and are, invisible.
The national media forgot these women because they were poor, had been previously incarcerated, and, for some journalists, the women’s stories, no matter how similar they were, lacked credibility.
So now, four weeks into the trial, Holtzclaw’s defense attorneys are aggressively going after the victims. The lawyers are trying to discredit the women one by one, digging up their drug use, drinking habits and suspended driver’s licenses to present to the jury 13 flawed women.
http://blackamericaweb.com/2015/12/01/where-are-the-protests-for-the-oklahoma-city-? -accusers/
should their be protest for this?
the protests outrage/convo is for the overall longstanding culture/history of police violence against black people.. should this receive more coverage sure.. but there is no sense in people inevitably putting there victimization vs one another.
The only reason for protest should be if he didn't get charged like all those officers that been murdering unarmed Black men.
You wouldn't be seeing as many protests if the justice system worked
? a protest anyway, I'm about rioting -
desertrain10 wrote: »Case does deserve more attention than it has gotten
The officer was arrested, but sexual assault convictions, especially in the cases of white men against blk women are next to non existent
And the sexual violence blk women face from law enforcement is something that rarely is included in police misconduct narratives
Have to make sure that changes and we remain vigilant
Awareness will go a long way
why hasn't BLM done more about this case -
I remember the original thread on this
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Sick bastard
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Closing arguments concluded on December 7th, and the jury is still deliberating
Smh -
. The lawyers are trying to discredit the women one by one, digging up their drug use, drinking habits and suspended driver’s licenses to present to the jury 13 flawed women
A suspended drivers license means she's unrapeable?
When you're black -
Throw him in gen pop and say his charges over the loudspeaker
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. The lawyers are trying to discredit the women one by one, digging up their drug use, drinking habits and suspended driver’s licenses to present to the jury 13 flawed women
A suspended drivers license means she's unrapeable?
Remember how uptight they got when anybody brought up the shady past of the Cosby accusers? Yet bringing up these women's past is perfectly acceptable in order to acquit this cop. Funny how that works. -
desertrain10 wrote: »Closing arguments concluded on December 7th, and the jury is still deliberating
Smh
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http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/11/daniel-holtzclaw-former-oklahoma-city-police-officer-guilty-?Daniel Holtzclaw: former Oklahoma City police officer guilty of ?
Daniel Holtzclaw pictured in a courtroom in Oklahoma City before the verdict was announced.
The women were teenagers and grandmothers. Most were living on the margins. All of them were black. And during a month-long trial that became a symbol of police predation, they formed a bleak parade of 13 witnesses who accused a former Oklahoma City officer of using his badge to coerce sex acts and ? .
On Thursday, after 45 hours of deliberation, a jury convicted Daniel Holtzclaw, 28, on five counts of ? and 13 other counts of sexual assault, including six of sexual battery.
The convictions included four for first-degree ? , which carries a possible sentence of life in prison. He will appear in court on 21 January for sentencing.
Holtzclaw was cleared of a further 18 of the 36 charges he faced, including ? , sexual battery, burglary, indecent exposure and stalking.
His conviction is likely to be viewed as a key moment of accountability for law enforcement officers who abuse their position: out of the hundreds of police officers terminated for sexual abuse in recent years, only a small number faced criminal charges and even fewer were convicted. And black women are especially liable to be their targets.
Still, the case did not attract the level of attention that activists and media outlets have paid to other accusations of ? or police abuse. Some racial justice activists were frustrated that the trial did not generate the same coverage as police-involved shootings that have killed black men. At the start of the trial, in early November, local activists were surprised to find the courtroom empty of the women’s groups that have supported accusers in other ? trials.
Many attributed the low visibility of the case to the profile of the victims: vulnerable women of color with troubled histories. Holtzclaw, police investigators found, methodically targeted black women with criminal records or a history of drug use or sex work. For all but one of his targets, the former officer used his position on the force to run background checks for outstanding warrants or other means by which to coerce sex.
An advocate who watched the trial unfold said the allegations fit a familiar pattern. “Officers count on no one believing the victim if she reports,” said Diane Wetendorf, who runs a counseling group in Chicago for women who are victims of police abuse. “And [they] know that the word of a woman of color is likely to be worth even less than the word of a white woman to those who matter in the criminal justice system.”
Indeed, Holtzclaw’s choice of victims laid the groundwork for an aggressive defense. His attorney, Scott Adams, aggressively questioned his accusers about their marijuana use, drinking, thefts, and suspended driver’s licenses in an attempt to undermine their credibility.
In court and in pretrial testimony, however, the 13 accusers told broadly consistent stories about how Holtzclaw isolated them, assaulted them, and terrorized them into silence.
One woman accused Holtzclaw of driving her to a field, ? her in the back of his squad car, and leaving her there. “There was nothing that I could do,” she testified. “He was a police officer and I was a woman.”
Another of his victims, a 17-year-old girl, testified that Holtzclaw ? her on her mother’s front porch. She said he threatened her with an outstanding warrant for trespassing. “What am I going to do?” she asked. “Call the cops? He was a cop.”
Another woman said the former officer forced her to perform oral sex while she was under the influence of drugs and handcuffed to a hospital bed. Holtzclaw, the woman testified, implied that he could have her charges dropped in return. “I didn’t think that no one would believe me,” the woman testified in a pre-trial hearing. “I feel like all police will work together.”
Holtzclaw’s crimes took place over seven months in 2013 and 2014 while he worked the 4pm to 2am patrol. Oklahoma City law enforcement arrested Holtzclaw on 18 June 2014. The previous night, he had pulled over a 57-year-old daycare worker and molesting her during the traffic stop. Holtzclaw then ordered her to perform oral sex, his gun in plain view, she has testified.
The woman made an immediate report to the Oklahoma City sex crimes division. Detectives arrested Holtzclaw in the afternoon. Before long, the investigative team connected Holtzclaw with other reports of sexual abuse against unnamed officers. GPS evidence from his patrol car also linked Holtzclaw to the alleged crimes.
Holtzclaw was fired from the force in January 2015.
During the trial, Holtzclaw did not contest that he encountered the women, but he maintained his innocence. He had a dedicated contingent of online supporters using the hashtag #FreeTheClaw. The defense called just one witness, a former girlfriend of Holtzclaw’s who testified he never exhibited sexually aggressive or inappropriate behavior around her.
The verdict will surprise advocates who were steeling themselves for an acquittal.
Legal experts noted that Holtzclaw’s defense harnessed powerful stereotypes about ? victims. His attorney noted that his accusers waited months to report his crimes and that they were not “perfect victims” or “perfect accusers”. The case unfolded before an all-white jury. (Court documents indicate Holtzclaw is Asian or Pacific Islander.)
“These cases are so difficult to prosecute because the defense attorneys go after the victims’ credibility in court,” said Wetendorf. “In my experience working with victims of police abuse, officers do target vulnerable women, particularly drug addicts, alcoholics and prostitutes.
“They are confident that ‘no one will believe’ these victims. Where women of color are available as targets, they are even easier prey.”
Rachel Anspach, of the African American Policy Forum, considered it a a sign of progress that Holtzclaw’s case even went to trial. “Historically, we’ve seen the justice system hasn’t protected black women from sexual assault,” she said. -
It's sad as ? it took a 50 something year old woman reporting his ass for it to even get on the police radar one of their own out here ? women but damn at the ether of them using his own GPS to prove he was where the victims said he was during the rapes.
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One of the few times the Justice System works in black peoples favor. This is a step in the right direction.
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