Two new videos feature Daniel Holtzclaw’s case, spreading awareness of his wrongful conviction!
IN THE FIRST VIDEO, “The Daniel Holtzclaw Case from a Law Enforcement Officer's Perspective,” POLICE OFFICER JASON ANGEL from Tulsa, Oklahoma, discusses how investigator bias and public pressure led to Daniel’s wrongful conviction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8TFw7I6E-s&feature=youtu.be
Officer Angel explains, “I am making this video to address the case of Daniel Holtzclaw, a former Oklahoma City police officer whose arrest and conviction made national headlines in 2015. [T]his was during a time when many in media, celebrities and politicians, were bashing cops left and right, and cities like Ferguson and Baltimore were being destroyed by rioters, angry at the police. In most cases around the country, the facts didn’t matter to the media or protesters, but the pressure for changes to be made caused some politicians and district attorneys to crumble under pressure and rush to charge officer with crimes.
“Since that time, many people have come forward questioning whether or not Daniel was really guilty of the things he was accused of doing, or was he rather the victim of an incompetent and biased investigation, political cowardice, and corruption.”
Officer Angel states, “I am now convinced he was the victim of an incompetent investigation and cowardly politicians fearing mob violence. As I watched the video [“Daniel in the Den,” by Michelle Malkin, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmKVMklq6Wk&feature=youtu.be and then checked her claims against other sources, I couldn’t believe Daniel was charged with a crime, let alone convicted.”
Angel summarizes the many contributing factors to Daniel’s wrongful conviction: “The case was not about facts. As we saw from the detectives, their hunches led them on a biased investigation, and they kept using biased strategies that led them to confirm their suspicions to themselves. The case they created -- a ‘white cop,’ as he was described in the media, ‘targeting black women’ -- fed a hungry media, which in turn inspired an angry and disruptive mob threatening to riot. That, and the false testimony by the forensic analyst and outright lies by the assistant district attorney which distorted the jurors’ view of the DNA, and the pile-up of witnesses in the absence of evidence, led to Daniel’s conviction and sentence of 263 years in prison.”
Officer Angel debunks four myths about Daniel’s case:
(1) “13 victims accused Daniel of sexual assaults.”
(2) “Daniel targeted black females.”
(3) “DNA evidence supported the claims.”
(4) “GPS information supported the claims.”
“Many people refuse to believe that Daniel can be innocent when he has so many accusers. But what if they knew he had only one, and then the most biased way imaginable to come up with more ‘victims’ occurred?” asks Officer Angel.
“Another colossal myth is that there was DNA evidence to support claims against Daniel Holtzclaw. Within seven hours of the alleged sexual assault of Jannie Ligons, a SANE test was conducted and no DNA of Daniel’s was found on Jannie Ligons.
“DNA was recovered from the fly of Daniel’s pants” and was found to match a teenager, Adaira Gardner, “yet there were no signs of vaginal fluid, semen, or other indicators of sexual assault on Daniel’s uniform pants. Also, there was male DNA […] on the fly of his pants, and there was no reason to believe he was sexually assaulting males.
“All this adds up to is what’s likely transfer DNA. The detectives, who were creating a story, did not consider this possibility. The assistant district attorney prosecuting the case did not either and told a flat-out lie to the jury that it was a ‘fact’ that the [skin cell DNA] from Adaira came from the walls of her vagina in vaginal fluid to Daniel’s pants, though […] there was no vaginal fluid found on Daniel’s pants.
“Over the past decade there have been many discoveries of how easy it is to innocently transfer DNA. In Daniel’s case, this was not considered. But since there was no other evidence or witnesses to support the claims of the alleged victims, the skin cell [DNA] on Daniel’s fly was what the detectives and prosecutors, desperate for a conviction, put their full weight behind, never considering they could be wrong.”
The last myth Officer Angel addresses is the myth that the GPS data from Daniel’s patrol car showed he was guilty.
He explains, “Daniel ran records checks and gave his location over the radio. That’s how the detectives determined to contact these women in the first place [after Ms. Ligons accused Daniel]. GPS can tell you where you are with some degree of accuracy, but it can’t tell you what you are doing. If GPS data was used, like in Daniel’s case, for every accusation, then we’d have a lot more people going to jail. The bias and incompetence to say that Daniel was guilty because he was where he says he was, with whom he says he was, is idiotic.
“So how did these myths start?” asks Angel. “It all began with the bias of the detectives that led them to act on the belief that Daniel was guilty. The lead detective in the case, Kim Davis, made it clear that her personal feelings led her through the investigation, rather than the facts and evidence. When she went into her interview [with Daniel], she had already made her mind up.
“There are many problems with this line of thinking,” says Officer Angel. “Sex Crimes 101 teaches not to judge the accuracy of someone’s statements based on their emotions or your feelings. This is important not just in a case where we worry about a false accuser, but you also don’t want to brush off a real victim’s claims because she didn’t react the way you expected. Judging people on their emotions and not evidence then may leave you blind to evidence when you come across it. Like in Jannie Ligons’ case where the SANE exam yielded no evidence to support her claims, none of that mattered to Detective Davis, because, as she told The Oklahoman, ‘In my gut, I knew she was telling the truth.’”
Officer Angel concludes, “Surely, this was not justice. It was a victory for activists who hate cops, and attorneys who need outrage to get paid; the media, hungry for a juicy story; a win for the DA’s office. But justice lost along the way, along with Daniel and his family.”
He then discusses that “the Fraternal Order of Police, the union that is supposed to represent the police officers, was missing in action when it came to Daniel’s defense.”
Officer Angel says, “Now that the evidence has been available for years that Daniel was railroaded by his own department, the FOP should be front and center in the fight for justice for Daniel. It should be the voice for officers who want to speak out without losing their jobs. But the FOP is missing, just like any evidence of Daniel’s wrongdoing.”
IN THE SECOND VIDEO, entitled, "Jenny Holtzclaw discusses Her Brother - Bodybuilding Keeps Me Alive," the famous bodybuilder RIC DRASIN interviews JENNY HOLTZCLAW and RICK NEWCOMBE, founder of Creators Syndicate, about Daniel’s case. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AVB5FbLM4o&feature=youtu.be
Ric Drasin has 50 years of bodybuilding and entertaining experiences and even designed of the famous Gold's Gym Logo. He interviews legends in bodybuilding and pro wrestling.
In this video, Ric features the wrongful conviction of Daniel Holtzclaw, whose bodybuilding helps him remain focused, positive, and healthy in prison while he and thousands of supporters work to regain his freedom.
Jenny explains how detectives solicited allegations specifically from African-American accusers. “The corrupt detectives went ahead and – even though there was no direct forensic evidence, nothing that substantiated her [Jannie Ligons’] allegations – the detectives went and sought out more women. And the thing that infuriates me is they only questioned one race in that neighborhood. They did not question any other race besides African-American. [..] So why did the detectives and the police department want to question only one specific race?
“What’s frustrating is with the first allegation Jannie Ligons claimed he was a shorter guy between 5’6” and 5’8”. Daniel is 6’2”. That’s a clear difference. And she claimed he had blond hair! Daniel has black hair. He is Japanese-American. And Daniel got convicted on her allegations alone for 21 years.”
Ric Drasin asks, “How could that be? If they don’t have the proof, how can they do that?”
Jenny replies, “Just like the detective Kim Davis stated, it wouldn’t have stuck with just one allegation. They went and purposely found more women so it would look [like where] there is smoke, there is fire. That was their intent of the whole case. They went and sought the women. They ended up with 13 women that went to trial. He got convicted on 8 of them. The other five, [he was] found not guilty.”
Jenny emphasizes, “The thing that I want everyone to know about: Daniel received the most number of years – 62 years – for the accuser who said the officer who raped her was a short, black male.
“How is that justice?!” she asks.
“It’s not justice,” agrees Ric Drasin.
Rick Newcombe describes the cultural blindness that led detectives to presume Daniel was guilty: “It’s tragic. And it was because he is a bodybuilder that they targeted him. And then because he was half-Japanese, they misunderstood him. [When the two sex crimes detectives interrogate Daniel,] he answers, ‘Yes,’ ‘No,’ very politely, respectfully in Japanese society. But in Oklahoma they interpreted that to mean, ‘Oh my God, we’re dealing with a sociopath, he’s robotic, he’s cold.’ […] And then they had the Ferguson [riots] that they wanted to avoid.”
Ric Drasin finishes by encouraging his viewers to help Daniel Holtzclaw. “A lot of you viewers, most of you are into bodybuilding and weightlifting. It could happen to any one of you. And I think you should jump on [Jenny’s] website and her Facebook […] and see what you can do to help out, because we’re all a brotherhood of weightlifters and bodybuilders. We’re like one big family, and this is like helping one of your brothers. That’s how I look at it. […] The evidence doesn’t prove anything. There is none!”
Thank you, Jason Angel, Ric Drasin, and Rick Newcombe, for taking a stand for Daniel Holtzclaw and sharing about his case and his innocence to help Daniel regain his freedom!