Daniel Holtzclaw was sentenced to serve 263 years in prison after having been convicted on 18 of 36 sexual assault charges, all of which occurred while he was on duty
BarkGrowlBite | January 23, 2016
Talk about being busy while on duty, you couldn’t get any busier than Oklahoma City officer Daniel Holtzclaw was between December 2013 and June 2014. He raped at least four women and sexually assaulted several others, all while on duty.
Holtzclaw was fired in January 2015 after three years on the job as an Oklahoma City cop. In December he was convicted on 18 of 36 sexual assault charges. Thirteen women testified against him. On Thursday a judge sentenced him to serve 263 years in prison, the maximum amount of time allowed under Oklahoma’s laws.
Holtzclaw, 29, who is white, preyed mostly on black women who had been in trouble with the law, thinking they would not be believed if they filed a complaint against him. He found out, much to his dismay, that he was dead wrong.
Shit, for the life of me, I can’t understand why they fired and tried Holtzclaw. It looks to me like he was doing exactly what President Obama and other leaders want cops to do – establish trust with the black community by interacting more with African-Americans. Instead of going to prison for the rest of his life, Holtzclaw should have been promoted and honored as ‘Police Officer of The Year.’
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