13/12/15

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Oklahoma actually indicted and convicted one Daniel Holtzclaw, serial rapist police officer, on the count of raping 18 women. Holtzclaw, in the process of his crimes, was known by the police of the city he was 'protecting' as a rapist before the final rapes he committed prior to his arrest:

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The way that I look at it, the conviction of Daniel Hotlzclaw proves that occasionally, when caught red-handed, even a society prone to drive rape victims out of town rather than punish the rapists and prone to  treat rapists as martyrs to injustice can in actual fact do the right thing in spite of itself. This society may burn down towns over the dismissal of someone who aids and abets pedophiles, but it at least won't tolerate this serial rapist with a badge, this time.

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