LF: Rapist cop, 29, WAILS in court as he is found guilty of sexually assaulting at least 13 black women while on-duty - including teen girl and a grandmother

Title: Rapist cop, 29, WAILS in court as he is found guilty of sexually assaulting at least 13 black women while on-duty - including teen girl and a grandmother - and now faces up to 263 years in prison
Source: Daily Mail Online
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Published: Dec 11, 2015
Author: Wills Robinson For Dailymail.com and Ass
Post Date: 2015-12-11 09:05:07 by cranky
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A former Oklahoma City police officer has been found guilty of attacking at least 13 black women - including teenagers and a grandmother - in the neighborhood he patrolled.

Daniel Holtzclaw was convicted by the all-white jury of eight men and four women on Thursday evening after four days of deliberations.

The 29-year-old ex-officer broke down in tears as he was found guilty on 18 counts - including rape, sexual battery and forcible oral sodomy - against eight of the women who testified against him.

His supporters also sobbed as the judge went through the verdicts on what happened to be his 29th birthday.

Some of the victims' supporters reportedly sang Happy Birthday to him as they gathered outside the courthouse.

Holtzclaw's defense attorneys tried to comfort him as he nodded his head up and down while shaking his head in disbelief. As he stood up to be handcuffed by court officers, he shouted: 'I didn't do it.'

He was found not guilty on 18 of the charges, but still faces a recommended 263 years in prison.

Holtzclaw, who turned 29 Thursday, could now spend the rest of his life in prison. He was remanded in custody and is set to be sentenced in January.

The Oklahoma City Police Department welcomed the verdict. Bill Citty said in a statement Thursday night that the trial of former officer Daniel Holtzclaw was 'long and difficult' for all involved. He says he's proud of his detectives and local prosecutors.

He called Holtzclaw's case the worst he'd seen in nearly four decades in law enforcement.

The mother of the youngest accuser clapped as the verdicts were read out. She said she went to the courthouse to hear the verdict, but found the doors locked - but was able to race home in time to see it on TV.

The grandmother whose allegations led authorities to launch an investigation was in the courtroom at the time.

She was the first to testify, telling the court Holtzclaw pulled her over as she was driving home late at night and ordered her out of her car.

He then told her to sit in the backseat of his squad car, where he stood over her and told her to perform oral sex.

She notified police officers hours later, launching a case in which 12 other women eventually came forward.

The woman was tearful after the verdict and prayed with supporters outside the courtroom.

The victims say they met Holtzclaw while he was on duty, and prosecutors say the ex-officer intimidated them into not reporting his crimes.

Holtzclaw's lawyer, Scott Adams, told jurors Holtzclaw was an honorable but naive officer trying to help troubled women who lied about him, and made their credibility the cornerstone of his defense strategy.

Adams called just one witness, an ex-girlfriend of the officer, before resting his case. A total of 13 women testified against him.

Since the trial began November 2, many of the women's descriptions had traced a similar arc: The officer stopped them while out on patrol, ran background checks for outstanding warrants or conducted searches that turned up drug paraphernalia, then forced them to have sex to avoid arrest.

Most said they never reported the assaults to authorities for fear no one would believe them.

Video courtesy of NewsOk.com

His father Eric Holtzclaw (left) holds his wife, Kumiko Holtzclaw (right) as the verdicts are read

He covered his face as he stood to his feet and made his way to face the judge

Holtzclaw continued crying as court officers dragged him out of the courtroom to the jail cells

Supporters of the cop's victims pray outside the courtroom. Some (not pictured) reportedly sang Happy Birthday as the verdicts were read out

'What's the good of telling the police? What kind of police do you call on the police?' asked one woman, who sobbed as she testified Tuesday that Holtzclaw pulled down her shorts and raped her on her mother's front porch when she was 17.

An expert testified that the girl's DNA was found inside the crotch of Holtzclaw's police uniform.

Another victim was a fifty-something grandmother.

The vulnerability of victims was a common thread in a recent Associated Press investigation that found about 1,000 officers nationwide had lost their badges in a six-year period for sexual assault and sex-related misconduct.

Hundreds were convicted, but many others were never prosecuted.

Judge Timothy Henderson had little to say after the verdicts were read out. He said Holtzclaw would be sentenced in January

Assault: Daniel Ken Holtzclaw, 29, was accused of 36 charges by 13 women, including rape and oral sodomy. He was found guilty on 18 charges and not guilty on the other half

Throughout the trial, Adams challenged the accusers' credibility, enumerating their arrest records, searching for inconsistencies in their stories and questioning why most didn't come forward until police investigators approached them.

He also noted that some had filed civil lawsuits against the city.

'You could have called anybody at 911 and said: "Not only was I raped by an Oklahoma City police officer, but I have DNA evidence all over the place in my room," 'Adams challenged one witness, after reading her criminal history to the court.

He focused especially on the women's use of drugs. Under Adams' questioning, one woman acknowledged she had slipped out of the motel room prosecutors had arranged for her the night before and procured marijuana and the hallucinogen PCP. She slurred some words, but denied being high on the witness stand and stood by her accusations.

Several of the women pushed back. 'I'm really getting upset by the way you're coming after me,' said the youngest accuser, who is now 18.

Prosecutors did not try to hide the witnesses' backgrounds, asking each about hers before Adams' cross-examination. They turned to relatives and friends who recalled the women telling them about the attacks. They also called police investigators and forensic experts to corroborate the women's claims.

After the first accuser came forward, police examined searches Holtzclaw made in police databases and data from his vehicle's locator device.

Detective Kim Davis, who led the investigation, testified GPS records showed, for example, that Holtzclaw was parked outside one woman's home for an unusually long time for someone he was supposedly dropping off. Davis described meeting with the woman four months later, and when Davis asked if the woman knew why they were meeting, 'She said, 'How do you know? Did he confess?' '

Adams employed a strategy used by other lawyers who have successfully defended officers accused of rape.

In 2012, an Oklahoma jury took just 40 minutes to acquit Stephens County sheriff's deputy Brandon Balthrop of assaulting two women and a teenager during traffic stops. Balthrop's attorney, Jim Kee, said he highlighted problems with each accuser's story, from inconsistencies in testimony to one's criminal record and drug abuse. He said Adams appeared to use the same approach.

Balthrop later surrendered his law enforcement license and had his case file expunged. The county settled federal lawsuits by paying the women $215,000.

In October, a Florida jury acquitted Stephen Maiorino of raping a 20-year-old woman, despite statements by the judge that evidence of rape was 'overwhelming.'

The former officer's lawyers argued the sex was consensual; the accuser was led crying from the courtroom after the verdict. The city later agreed to an $875,000 settlement with the woman.

Holtzclaw was placed on administrative leave and eventually arrested, after investigators used GPS tracking devices to corroborate the stories of his victims

'There's a lot of deference and respect given to law enforcement,' said Florida state's attorney Dave Aronberg, whose office prosecuted the former Boynton Beach officer. 'There's just this assumption that you want to believe him.'

Holtzclaw's case has attracted attention from clergy and activists, who've been especially critical of the makeup of the eight-man, four-woman jury, which appears to be all white. Oklahoma court officials could not provide jurors' race.

Valeria Benabdallah, an Oklahoma City psychotherapist who attended part of the trial, said she was uncomfortable because jurors were being asked to judge a black female witness 'pleading for her innocence.'

More than 50 people marched outside one day, chanting, 'We want life!' loudly enough to be heard inside the courtroom.

'I can't order you to not hear it, but you understand that has nothing to do with what goes on in this courtroom,' Judge Tim Henderson instructed jurors.

Holtzclaw's sister and his father, a police officer in Enid, have been a constant presence during the trial, and other family members and friends have attended.

One former high school football teammate said he was convinced of Holtzclaw's innocence. 'He's not that type of guy,' Jarred Benton said.

If he were really innocent, then he had to take the stand to testify in his own defense. He had to endure the cross examination and declare his innocence.

From the article, it seems that the defense attorney only called his ex- girlfriend, and not him, to the stand.

When your life is at stake, if you're really innocent, you cannot hide behind the 5th Amendment.

Because the truth is that government disregards the 2nd Amendment, and cops disregard the 4th Amendment, but JURIES disregard the 5th.

And being a non black in a predominately black prion is going to eliminate the Eighth.

Add former WHITE COP that was raping black women to the mix,and I have to say the 263 year sentence shouldn't be worrying him.

Matthew 26:52

King James Bible
Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.

New International Version
"Put your sword back in its place," Jesus said to him, "for all who draw the sword will die by the sword.

He was talking about that one instance. He wasn't stating some kind of docrinal fact that is universal.

You can prove it becaue everyone who "lives by the sword" doesn't die by the sword. They die like everyone. But not by the sword every time.

You seemed to be denying that Jesus was the source of this paraphrase or that He spoke to the subject at all.

Naturally, you have to judge for yourself how specifically or generally to apply a saying of Jesus in modern life. Personal defense was not a subject included in His major doctrinal statements, like the Sermon on the Mount.

I believe he said put away those swords or you shall surely die. Or something like that.

He was talking to the people who there and would have been killed if they resisted.

There is zero evidence that he said whoever lives by the sword shall die by the sword. Just look at the world. Does everyone who lives by the sword die by the sword? No they don't.

So either Jesus was full of shit and not God because he got it wrong. Or he didn't make a universal statement. I see no other possibilities.

Don't they? Remember, life continues after death, and that life is one of reward or punishment.

So, the man who lives by the sword - he earns his keep by wielding weapons against other human beings. Where did Jesus authorize that, other than in self-defense? If you take up arms as a soldier in a cause, and the cause is evil and contrary to God's law, then you bear the guilt for killing people to advance evil. You die in your bed of old age, and you wake up in Hell. You DID die by the sword in the end - your spirit perished, eternally, in the flames, BECAUSE you took up the sword. You lost everlasting life.

Those who take up the sword perish by it does not JUST mean that they will get run through, for those who die physically have, in the words of Jesus, merely fallen asleep. The "dead" awaken, alive, on the other side. But then they are judged, and if they go down to sleep in the grave with the blood of others on their heads, blood drawn by a life of the man living by the sword, the man who lived by the sword DOES perish by it:.

You are quite mistaken that men who live by the sword don't perish by it. They all do. To perish, when Jesus speaks of it, doesn't mean simply to fall asleep in the flesh - to physically die. It means to lose life eternal. THAT is to perish.

I pointed out the FACT that everyone who lives by the sword doesn't die by the sword. Can we agree on that?

Jesus never said everyone who takes up the sword will die by the sword. He was talking to his followers who were with him. It isn't complicated.

But you are so stubborn and think that you are never wrong. So you will dismiss my words and doing that you are calling Jesus a liar. Because everyone who takes up the sword doesn't die by the sword.

Jesus was not merely speaking to his followers in that room. He was speaking generally for mankind for all kind. We know this because God prohibited men from shedding the blood of other men, and made exceptions from that rule for the execution of justice against those who had shed man's blood. He made various law enforcement exceptions for ancient Israel, specifically, and he made exceptions for the wars of Israel to take the Holy Land. But otherwise the rule stands. And on the last page of the Bible, Jesus said twice, from heaven, that killers are thrown into the fire.

All who take up the sword - not simply defend themselves with it but who take it up as a principle by which to make their way in the world - risk hellfire, because they are at a high risk of shedding man's blood and killing men. And if you kill a man outside of the very narrow range of conditions in which God authorized it, you're a killer doomed to hell. So yeah, ALL who take up the sword DO perish by it, in the end. Not just the people in that room.

You're right that it isn't complicated. It's easy. If you kill somebody, you're damned unless God forgives you, or God explicitly permitted that killing.

I note that you tell me that by dismissing YOUR words, I am calling Jesus a liar. Are you Jesus?

To use the KJV, the text on which you insisted as being the only acceptable one.

In Matthew 26, we have the arrest of Jesus. One man present, Peter, drew his sword and struck off the ear of a servant of the high priest.

We should be clear, Jesus is talking TO PETER. The text TELLS US that Jesus was addressing a specific man, not all of the disciples present, for it says THIS, at Mt 26:52 (emphasis mine):

"Then said Jesus unto HIM, 'Put up again thy sword into his place: for ALL THEY that take the sword shall perish with the sword.'"

Jesus then goes on to make it clear that his arrest is not a case of self-defense, for he has the power to call legions of angels if he chooses. He chooses not to, in order to fulfill the scriptures.

Jesus said unto HIM - HIM, singular. Jesus is speaking to ONE man, the man who drew the sword and struck. We know it's Peter from the other Gospels.

Jesus has already made this man, Peter, the head of the Apostles, the rock on which he will build the church, and Jesus knows that this Peter will betray him, and return to him after the Resurrection. Jesus knows all of that. So, he addresses this ONE MAN and gives him a general precept that applies to ALL MEN.

It is perfectly clear from the language itself that it applies to all men. Jesus doesn't say "you", and he doesn't say "all of you". No. He says, to ONE man, leader of the Apostles, "Put up THY (singular) sort" - dealing with this specific incident, and then he makes a general rule for mankind "For ALL THEY that the sword shall perish with the sword."

I just quoted it to you hear, and showed you from the language that Jesus used that he was talking to ONE man, and giving him a general rule for ALL MEN, not just all of the Apostles there.

And indeed, this relates directly to a law for all of mankind that God gave to Noah, at Genesis 9:5- 6, when he said "And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man."

As it was in the beginning, so it stlll was with Jesus: take the sword, shed man's blood, and God shall require your blood by the hand of man. Which is to say, live by the sword, die by the sword.

None of this is difficult, obscure or hard to read. You've read plurals where there are singular words, and singulars where there are plurals. You've read a general rule, given to the head of the Apostles as a general rule - a general rule that brings forward and renews the same concept that was made a law for man after the Flood - and you're pulling the force out of it and pretending that it doesn't apply. You are removing from Scripture and teaching people something that is contrary to what Jesus said.

You're leading people astray...or you would be, if anybody actually listened to you. You're the false teacher here, and any objective person reading the language I've quoted directly from Matthew 26:52, sees that Jesus is speaking to ONE man, and he gives a rule to him that applies to ALL men. It's clear on the base language. You're the one twisting here, because you don't like the implications of it.

To look at the other Gospels on the matter, Mark 14:47 makes it clear that only one man drew his sword, and that he cut off the ear of a servant of the high priest.

John rounds out the set, at 18:10-11, informing us that it was Peter who had a sword and drew it, cutting off the ear of the high priest's servant. John gives us the servant's name too: Malchus. And the text is explicit: "Jesus said unto Peter, 'Put up thy sword into the sheath'. John does not give us the precept from Jesus that Matthew does, as the narrative moves right to the necessity of Jesus accept being arrested.

Once again you've accused me of not knowing Scripture and of being a false teacher.

Once again I have quoted Scripture extensively, using the only translation you accept as authoritative (which means that you're bound to the words too).

And once again, on the words themselves, which merely hearken to a rule of law given to Noah for all mankind, I've demonstrated that my position is just precisely what Jesus said: it's a plural, addressed to all mankind, as is the commandment from God to Noah regarding bloodshedding.

You've told me that I'm stubborn. Here, you wanted Scripture, and I've given you all of the Scripture on the matter, and it demonstrates exactly what I correctly taught you at the beginning.

So now who is going to be stubborn and deny it all, deny what Christ said, deny the KJV language, and throw back another insult.

You have a philosophical problem with Christ's law on this matter. You don't see how it can work in the real world as you perceive it. Rather than understanding that we have CHANGE the world of men to make what Jesus said less problematic, you're going down the road of trying to explain it away and ignore it. And you're accusing one who is teaching you the truth of being a false teacher, and you're adding insult to it.

What you OUGHT to do now is re-read the passage, see that I am right and have recounted to you the truth, realize that Jesus is re-ratifying a law of shedding blood that is as old as Noah, realize that the strictness of the rule stands in sharp contrast to the way of the world, and then come to understand that wherever the world deviates from God's law, it is the world that is wrong and needs to reform, not God. And not the person who faithfully and accurately recounts to you what God says, even if you make him have to turn the other cheek to you when he does it, because you insult him and strike him with words - heretic, blasphemer, false teacher, dumb.

No. I'm just simply right, and you have not read your KJV carefully enough on the matter, or let the scales fall off your eyes as to the full implications of it (the implication is: man cannot build empires by force).

But there is still time for you. I've given you the necessary texts. Reform your thinking to conform to what Jesus said.