Comments on: Daniel Holtzclaw, Black Women, And The Myth of Police Protection

By: International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers: Reliving the Decade You Survived | Tits and Sass

Wed, 18 Dec 2019 03:53:52 +0000

[…] who leveraged his size and strength into a job with the Oklahoma City Police Department and then spent a good portion of his career serially raping Black women, including drug users and outdooor se…. Feminist organizations were eerily silent after Holtzclaw’s arrest. It was Black sex workers, in […]

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Altered Carbon (2018) | Tits and Sass — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 15:02:16 +0000

[…] of sexual exploitation, and now, even teenagers as a perk of their jobs. We’ve all read about Daniel Holtzclaw. It was barely a month ago we discussed finding out that, in 35 states in America, it’s basically […]

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Fri, 23 Feb 2018 15:03:44 +0000

[…] threat of arrest has historically been very effective for rapist cops to wield against sex workers. Ex-Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw assaulted 13 Black women and young girls, many of them drug-using sex workers and almost all possessing records. It was only because the […]

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Call #FreeBambi What You Like, It’s Racism — Tits and Sass — Tue, 23 May 2017 00:28:40 +0000

[…] assaults? In the moments where I compare the fictional scam of Bambi to the real life stories of sex working Oklahoman Black women who were raped and assaulted by Officer Daniel Hotlzclaw? I am […]

By: A Round Table on Police Violence Against Sex Workers of Color: Part I — Tits and Sass

Fri, 16 Dec 2016 14:59:52 +0000

[…] Black activists and community members. At the same time, a number of cases this year, such as the rape of multiple sex working and drug using Black women by Oklahoma City police officer Daniel H…, as well as the sexual exploitation of Latina teenage sex worker Celeste Guap/Jasmine Abuslin by […]

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Fri, 25 Mar 2016 19:12:37 +0000

[…] leads to predators like Daniel Holtzclaw feeling entitled to prey on poor, often majority non-white communit…, and surprising the country on the rare occasions they are held […]

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Thu, 03 Mar 2016 16:01:02 +0000

[…] up,” we did not reach out to those affected, as pointed out by members of our SWOP network and here on Tits and Sass and by our […]

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By: Domina Elle

Domina Elle — Fri, 12 Feb 2016 22:13:08 +0000

Cops sexually abusing prostitutes and people they catch with drugs is something which has been a HUGE issue for me for some time now. Long time sex worker activist Norma Jean Almodovar has been shouting from the mountain tops about this for many years. The Holtzclaw case was not the first, and while it has been framed as an attack on black women, and perhaps Holtzclaw did single out black women, what is obvious to me, is that he was preying upon prostitutes and women with criminal records. Looking at the broader picture, as in the wide variety of other cops, DA’s, Judges and law enforcement who have preyed upon sex workers with the complicit activities of prosecutors and investigating officers once a courageous woman has stepped forth to report, it is not an issue about race, it is an issue about opportunity and abuse of power. Black officer Anthony Rollins of Alaska had been protected for years by his badge, and had over 30 victims once finally brought to justice. Hispanic cop Sergio Alvarez of Sacramento had over 35 victims before he was finally brought down. There is a long list of these cop predators at Norma’s site in addition to an even longer list of pedophile cop abusers. I’ll never forget reading about the case of a police chief raping a three year old baby twice and getting PROBATION. many of these disgusting meat bags get questionable sentences and too often don’t have to register as sex offenders. THANK GOODNESS this case got ANY press at all! The Rollins and Alvarez cases happened as recently as 2012-13 and did you know about them? 35 victims is a LOT. their victims were of various ethnicities just as the predators are of various ethnicities. But we can JUST focus on ‘certain’ ethnicities which is what has happened in the Holtzclaw case. Had the women been white, I’m wondering if there would’ve been any press other than a few local reports. Let’s not forget that it took a woman with no criminal history for the Holtzclaw case to gain any traction! Otherwise, had he not raped a woman with a clear record, regardless of anyone’s skin color, he would likely still be raping. Very sad. Our people should be heard and appropriate action taken by authorities when they are sexually assaulted or raped by law enforcement. Let’s not forget that in various regions of the USA cops & FBI agents are allowed sexual contact with sex workers to arrest them. I don’t call that consensual. Or the woman judge who decided gang rape of an escort at gun point was merely ‘theft of services’. Or the other bitch Judge who said she wouldn’t bring rape charges against a cop because she didn’t think jurors would accept that a prostitute could be raped.

Narratives can help. But as we have seen far too often, narratives can also derail much needed discussions so that nothing really changes.

Holtzclaw one among many: https://youtu.be/wI8e_IRr3yM

Minors considered to be trafficking victims don’t trust cops: https://youtu.be/G5fZ1kIrhi8

By: Consequences for sexual violence: 2015 was a good start. May all who are deserving get CONSEQUENTED in 2016 | Aya de Leon

Mon, 04 Jan 2016 02:02:49 +0000

[…] on my birthday? But I was led to believe by the society that I could target this group of women because no one cared about them. But I’ve gotten away with this for so long that I have come to think of myself as […]