The alleged Oklahoma rapist with a badge targeted at least eight different black women to rape and sexually abuse while patrolling Oklahoma City during a four month period this year, police said.
A slew of charges, including rape, sexual battery, forcible oral sodomy and stalking were levied Friday against Daniel Holtzclaw, who’s been jailed on $5 million bond since his arrest last week.
The 27-year-old former college football player attacked at least seven women, between the ages of 34 and 58, during a period of time between February and June,
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Holtzclaw, a three-year veteran of the force, stopped his victims while on his patrol shift, between 4 p.m. and 2 a.m., police said.
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he attacked at the scene of routine traffic stops. Other times, he led his victims away to remote spots before assaulting them.
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accused officer threatened to arrest his victims if they did not comply, Oklahoma City Police Chief Bill Citty said at a press conference last week.
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attorney argued for a lower bond earlier this week, claiming the man is not a flight risk, but the request was denied by a judge who deemed the man a “threat to the community,” saying he “not only knew his victims private information” but he’d also “even did research on them and tracked the women down
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The first victim to come forward was a 57-year-old grandmother who claimed Holtzclaw forced her to perform oral sex in June.
Holtzclaw was placed on leave after that woman complained.
“She was so afraid that no one was going to believe her because she’s African-American,” the woman’s attorney, Aletia Timmons,
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Holtzclaw raped at least one woman, fondled others and forced still more to expose themselves in at least eight incidents,
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Still more victims could be out there.
“This is a tragedy,” Anthony Douglas, president of the Oklahoma chapter of the NAACP,
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“What this is is sending out a signal to the state of Oklahoma that African-Americans is prey. We do what we want to you because we hold a badge and a gun.”