(NNPA)—Jannie Ligons is an Oklahoma City grandmother who left a friend’s house to drive home. She collided with Daniel Holtzclaw, the rogue police officer who seemed to think it was part of his duty to sexually abuse Black women. He raped them because he could. They did not accuse him because they feared they could not. Some had criminal records—they had been involved with drugs or had other skirmishes with the law. They felt both vulnerable and violated, and they thought nobody would believe them.
At least 13 women were violated, and they were only identified because one courageous woman, Jannie Ligons, took her complaint to the police. She had no criminal record and nothing to hide from. She simply had the harrowing experience of encountering a White (really half Japanese, but that’s another story) man with a badge, feelings of superior racial identity, and a penis. According to many of the accounts of women who encountered Daniel he referred to his Whiteness as he violated them. Many of the women had other matters with the law, and he intimidated them into silence.
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