Daniel Ken Holtzclaw, a white cop, forced at least seven black women to perform sex acts on him while on patrol
Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Ken Holtzclaw, 27, was arrested Thursday and charged with first degree rape, forcible oral sodomy, sexual battery and indecent exposure. He remains in the Oklahoma County jail with his bond set at $5 million.
According to The Oklahoman, the Oklahoma City Police department has sworn statements from six women and is in the process of obtaining the statement of a seventh woman, all claiming Holtzclaw stopped them during his 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. shift and forced them to expose themselves, fondled them and in at least one case, forcibly raped the victim. Holtzclaw is white and all the victims were black women between the ages of 34 and 58.
Oklahoma City police chief Bill Citty said the department began investigating Holtzclaw after one of the victims filed a complaint on June 18. “We started the investigation and we started looking at traffic stops he had made throughout the previous months to try to identify and initiate contact with females that we knew he had stopped during that period of time . . . to see if they had been sexually assaulted,” Citty said.
I know from experience that patrol work can be very boring. To fight that boredom, cops who are partnered up spend the time telling war stories, bragging about their sexual exploits, yacking about the latest department gossip, etc. Officers working by themselves have to find other means of fighting boredom. Some will even provoke citizens into a fight in order to have some excitement during their shift. Holtzclaw obviously went to a different extreme in order to overcome his boredom.
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