Indianapolis Cop Fired For Allegedly Raping Domestic Violence Victim, Admits to Long History of Potentially Criminal Conduct

Myron Howard was still on probation when he got fired from the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department.  Like everyone else on this blog, he's innocent of all conduct discussed herein until proven guilty in a court of law.

WTHR:

According to police, Howard was called with other officers to a home on Olney Street, near East 25th Street and North Sherman Drive, on Jan. 6 for a domestic violence call. A man was taken into custody during that incident. 

Howard then allegedly returned to the scene after other officers left. According to court documents, Howard allegedly told the female victim, "you know you could've went to jail too, but I didn't say anything, so I need you to do something for me."

Howard turned his body-worn camera off during the incident, according to the court documents. Police said they verified this because the device was missing nearly 20 minutes of GPS data during the alleged incident. His patrol car GPS showed he had returned to the woman's home after the domestic violence call and was there for approximately 17 minutes.  [This is why I'm such a huge fan of GPS and bodycams.]

"I felt obliged to do what he tells me,” the alleged victim told police.

She said her boyfriend was arrested again in February for domestic violence and that Howard came to her home after other officers left. That time, she said she told him to leave her alone and didn't open the door to her home.

When questioned, Howard claims he was doing patrols in the area after the domestic violence call and the woman waved him down and the sex was consensual. He claimed he didn't talk to her after that. The woman submitted screenshots from her home of text messages Howard allegedly sent her and a call he made.

In a separate incident in August 2023, another woman said Howard was helping her after a car crash. She said he then came back and offered her a ride home. She said he told her that she needed to buy him gas or have sex with him. She said she offered gas money, but he told her it needed to be sex. She said the two had sex and then he drove her home.

"The allegations made in the probable cause affidavit are deeply disappointing and disturbing,” IMPD Chief Chris Bailey said. “His alleged actions not only violated his sacred oath to our community, but he abused his power and took advantage of a victim when she was most vulnerable. His actions do not represent the brave women and men who serve Indianapolis with integrity every single day. My prayers are with the victim during this difficult time.""

Both of those complaints are horrifying, descriptions of practiced predation.

In the linked video, Howard is said to have told investigators that he had sex all the time on his other police jobs before being hired at Indianapolis Metro.

One problem is that I don't have any research resources at this time.  I don't have an intern, no LEXIS/NEXIS account, no ability to find out where this guy worked before and begin rocking the FOIA requests. 

Another issue is that Howard, like many others, described the sex he had as consensual.  They all do.  And like with the Bert Lopez video, and even all the progressive people thinking it was awesome, and at worst him loafing on the taxpayers' dime, there's no convincing this country that it's inherently, automatically problematic, rapey behavior when cops are having sex with citizens on the job.

Americans, even so-called progressive ones, just don't believe that cops rape people on the job all the time, in a lot of different ways.  This article just described two different Holtzclawing tactics, and neither one of those women was either a sex worker or drug user. 

Even when you can convince people maybe it did happen, like with Holtclaw or Golubski, Americans generally don't believe it does happen to anyone but black women. They just barely believe/care that it happens to black ladies. Had Holtzclaw not tried to run "the deal" on a woman with no warrants, no nothing, simply not the right one, and had she not fought back, it would probably still be "no business as usual" in OKC. 

Police rape can and does happen to anybody. America's stuck on thinking it's a "bad apples" or Black Lives Matter issue.  Americans can only think in bumper stickers.  And they almost don't believe in rape anyway, overall.  You have to be a daycare-owning church grandma to take down Daniel Holtzclaw.  That was literally what it took. 

Women in particular can scream to high heaven that they didn't consent, it wasn't their idea, they didn't like it, they didn't want it, they didn't appreciate it -- and all of that will be thrown back in their faces a million different ways because rape culture always says she wanted it.  I remember Cenk from The Young Turks -- an attorney in real life -- inferring consent from the woman in the Bert Lopez video from the angle of her foot in a still photograph.

"He said, she said." "She's lying for money."  Because just like being black is obviously the fastest way to the White House, there's no easier way to catapult yourself to the lifestyle of the rich and famous than getting raped.  Voice of experience here.

I'm glad this person came forward about Myron Howard.  I am thankful for the GPS and bodycam that exist to back her up in court.  None of that was a thing in my day, God bless.  As her attorney said, he was allegedly on a reign of terror  Her ordeal sounds absolutely harrowing, with her attacker allegedly coming back to her home because he knows her boyfriend has been a problem again, that there's been more police activity. 

If proven, wow, what an asshole.  His  police job was like being a roadie for David Lee Roth, kind of, in terms of being able to keep an eye out for different women who might be negotiable.  And he describes it as all consensual because of what I explained above.  Unfortunately he seems to have worked at other departments that shoved him off without getting him arrested.

It's not exactly clear where the other complainant came from, if the department began looking over his GPS records, or she came forward, or what. 

I'm glad that her attorney is out front on this.  But as a survivor, unraped people say things that slap me in the brain.

"You don't expect a police officer, someone in law enforcement, to do such a thing.  And that's what makes it worse."

I appreciate the work this guy is doing.  But is he talking to the mouse in his pocket?  Because I definitely halfway think they're going to try to pull some shit, and I never have warrants or anything. 

I had an experience about a year ago out in the Mojave Desert where it was me and one police officer, not a soul for miles around, in the dead of night.  At first I wasn't sure if he was a real cop or not. 

My second concern was simply being detained by a random man with a gun under those circumstances.  Right?  Anyone who doesn't halfway want to shit themselves in that scenario isn't thinking clearly.  I have no way of knowing whether he's called my plates in to dispatch, turned off his body cam, or what.  The person with the most guns can always do whatever the fuck they want.

So if you didn't know, now you do.