As if there aren’t enough incidents of police officers using their position as a
means to harm African-American citizens, an Oklahoma City cop has
now been arrested and will face charges for sexually assaulting at least six
black women while on duty.
Gawker: Oklahoma
City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw, 27, was arrested Wednesday after
allegedly sexually assaulting at least six women while on duty. Police chief
Bill Citty said at a news conference yesterday that Holtzclaw would “stop the
women while he was working, force them to expose themselves, fondle them, and
in at least one instance had intercourse with a woman.”
Holtzclaw, who, as the Associated Press
helpfully points out, was a star football player in high school and college, is
being held on complaints of rape, forcible oral sodomy, sexual battery, and
indecent exposure. His alleged victims are all black women between the ages of
34 and 58. :
The Oklahoman reports that Holtzclaw “worked
the 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. shift,” and that the alleged assaults mostly “happened at
the location of the stops, but some victims were taken to remote locations.”
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