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The following account is brutal and shocking. It is not intended as a
blanket condemnation of the entire police force, but rather as an expose on
law enforcement practices in Royse City (in Rockwall County) Texas, as well
as the true story of one family's terrifying plight."

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MY STORY is an unbelievable one of Texas Police Brutality, corruption,
nepotism, southern racism, and conspiracy by Royse City, Rockwall County,

Look at a Family Foto by clickin on:

Chad with his sister and brother left

State of Texas. This is an example of how a small incident can become an
ongoing major battle.
Please read my true story. I know, it seems bizarre for the State of
Texas,
the Royse City Schools, the Royse City Police, the Rockwall County
Sheriff
Dept., and others to conspire together against my family, but it is all
true
and provable. In Rockwall County Texas ( approximate population of 10,
000
people), the police, crime watch, the state of Texas employees, and the
judges lived on my street and in my neighborhood, and were family
members,
friends, etc. to each other, making it effortless to aid one another in
the
revenge harassment of one man. The authorities have caused unbelievable
hardships for many in the town of Royse City, Texas, including, but not
limited to, illegal jail terms and prison time, etc.
I am forty-five years old with no police record; I have never used drugs
or
alcohol and I consider myself a decent law-biding citizen. You have my
permission to check any of our files, and please check files in Rockwall
County evidencing this judge and Rockwall County's illegal system !

After twenty-five years of marriage, and being married at the age of 17
years old,
my husband and I divorced. We are the
parents of three grown children. All three have birth defects. One child
has
malformed feet and legs. A different child has mild MR. Another child
lives
with multiple defects. We had two other babies that deceased before our
living children was born, while carrying
them. We understand that the fathers' and my blood was incompatible and
therefore caused malformations.

"During the illegal searches of my home, the police became aware of a
certain
closet that is always kept locked and they asked me why it was locked.
I explained that the closet is kept locked
because it contains the prescription medication that my one of my
children
takes. I have two grandchildren and I don't think that medication should
be
placed where a child may find it. The policeman, Officer Charles Hall,
took
the door off the hinges and in the process damaged the doorframe and wall
due
to his lack of education on remodeling, as they had destroyed many doors
and walls in my home during other illegal searches."

MY STORY - How It All Began
After the divorce, I bought a low-income home near my hometown in Royse
City,
Texas. This is a very small county and the DA knows me well from our
childhood days. The chief of police of Royse City, Dana Thomasson, was my

neighbor. This situation all started with him walking into my home too
many
times without knocking. He was insistent on wanting to "help because you
are
divorced," and he said 'You will need my help." After he barged into my
home
the third time, and made me feel very uneasy with his advancements
towards me,
I told him to get off my property and to never come back. He took
lasting offense.
The following day Chief Thomasson came to my door and told me to keep the

black people off my property. The chief told me if I would keep the
people of
color out of my yard, he would leave us alone. "Keep your black friends
off
this property, or you will live to regret it." He, as a racist, has a
problem
against blacks. I told him he would not choose our color of friends. My
children have many black and brown friends. He told my children's' black
friends to leave and stay on "their side of Royse City".
There were times that, as the kids would leave my home after a game of
basketball, the police would pull out of the church parking lot (across
the
street from my home where they sit 24/7) and detain the kids until curfew
time was up and then persue to arrest them or give them a citation for
violating curfew.
Another friend of my son, Robert White, was given a ticket because the
police
said he flipped them off while in my yard. I was sitting on my porch to
guard
the boys as I had to do often from the police because I was aware of the
police stalking them and all of us, and therefore I knew this was another
false allegation of the police.
Many of my son's friends were arrested out of my yard for false
allegations
of ignorant things such as the cops' most famous reason, "crime watch,
(Greg
Forrester) said you boys flipped him off!" They arrested the boys for
this many times.
Many times the police have stopped at my home and forced every person of
color to give the police their ID and the police would run their license.

Some of these people were arrested for misdemeanour warrants that they
received from this illegal procedure. After that, several officers (Hall,

Hutchinson, Thomasson, etc.) began to really harass my family and for the

first time in my life, at age 41, I was arrested for allegedly stealing
cable, but the DA did not prosecute the case. I spoke with the president
of
the cable company and he stated that he knew I was not stealing cable and
said he did not file a report or call the police and report this and
therefore something was very fishy, yet Chief Thomasson did not stop the
other officers from harassing my family and the chief himself was the
initiator of the harassment. Since that day
five years ago, this bizarre harassment conspiracy involving Rockwall
County
Sheriff's department and other agencies has escalated without regard for
the
real laws.

Letter From Witness Below
To Whom It May Concern:
My name is Verla Erdahl. I live in Forney, Texas. I met Brenda at the
Texas
Back Institute where we were both undergoing therapy for injuries. At
that
time we started chatting and she told me some of the things that were
happening to her in Royse City. I really did not know what to think. I
have
worked in the legal field as a legal secretary for almost 20 years. We
completed our therapy and went our separate ways until I got a call one
night
from Brenda stating that they were trying to take her child "Chip" away
from
her. I could not believe that this was really happening because I
observed
Brenda and Chip together and I thought the relationship a very healthy
one.
She asked me for assistance and so I got involved in the case.
I have never in my life witnessed such a cesspool of lies, deceit and
malicious destruction on the part of the welfare department and the Royse

City officials. I went to many of the meetings with Brenda, her ex
husband
and Chip. These meetings were a sham with everyone knowing what they were

going to do before they sat down. Brenda was treated as a criminal with
no
rights. They tried to take her very sick child under the pretense that
Brenda
was in fact making the child sick to get attention. I went to the
psychiatrist's office with Brenda and they would not even give her copies
of
her own records. I went to the sheriff's office to get an offense report
with
her and the officer on duty - I can't remember his name but I could
identify
him -- unsnapped his pistol and put his hand on the gun and took a step
towards us and told us if we want a report to get a lawyer and subpoena
to
get it. Very menacing! I am sure that they ran my license plates and
found
out that my husband is an attorney or they would have pulled me over.
I was at Brenda's house and the police kept driving around her block. At
one
point, they threw Brenda out of her house and she had to stay with me and

other friends. They said if she did not move out then they would put Chip
in
foster care. They gave the house and Chip to his father, who really did
not
want to keep Chip. He told me many times that Brenda needed to care for
Chip
because she had taken care of him since birth. They took all of the
medication away from Chip and said he did not need it that the only
reason he
had it was for Brenda to have for herself. I was at the meetings where
these
decisions were made. I knew Brenda was being railroaded but they had the
judge in their pocket, so to speak. I know I will remember much more if I

could just get together with Rhonda and Brenda for lunch because we all
were
afraid for ourselves and I am amazed that they have not killed Brenda
yet.
Royce City is like a Mafia and I think there was a Texas Ranger involved
in
this at that time I was and he also was afraid for Brenda.
At this time, I can't remember any more but I know there was much more
that
went on. I think the city was trying to run Brenda out of their city and
the
welfare officials all went to lunch with the judge after the court
sessions.
I know I will probably never in my life experience the things that went
on
when I was helping Brenda. My husband was afraid that they would make an
excuse to pull me over and end up killing me so he told me I could not
help
Brenda anymore.
If you need anything further from me, let me know.
Verla Erdahl
(972)564-5229
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The police have busted my door down, waved papers in the air, And claimed

they were search warrants. My home was illegally searched at least
20 times and always after 12:00 midnight to wake us up.
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Several months later a Texas Ranger, Alvin Alexus, told me that not one
of
the papers the police ever told me were search warrants, was actually a
legal
search warrant. This ranger also brought all this police harassment to
Rockwall County DA for help - and the Rockwall Grand Jury would not
indict
for fear of publicity.
Now I realize that the DA and the Grand Jury are just as guilty as the
police. They should have stopped these police years ago. The DA knew of
all
the enormous tickets Royse police was giving my family. He tried
prosecuting
us for these. I won a majority of these cases, but only after much
suffering,
jail stays, etc. The chief's wife is employed at our county (Rockwall)
sheriff's office and she would have the county deptueys to stop us and
harrass us as her husband, the Royse City chief, would call her and tell
her when we was driving toward that direction every time. After many
times of being stopped for no reasons, I asked the deputey, Hodebeck, why
he had stopped me. He told me that dispatch (whom is the chiefs wife) had
alerted officers in the area to stop this particular vehicle description.
A different time, my ex had a misdemeanor ticket in another county. The
local county officer called me and asked me why the chief in this town
had it in for us so bad and told me that the chief of police called him
often to try and get him to put a warrant on my ex.
My daughter and son was given many tickets many different times without
their knowledge. As a Royse City officer would pass them, they would
write a ticket and not stop them to give it to them and therefore my kids
would not show up for court. The court would put a warrant on them for
failure to appear in court. The cops would be waiting in front of my home
for them to walk in my front yard and the police would run in my yard and
arrest them. I finally realized what was happening and I called the DPS
in Austin and talked with their legal department. They investigated my
allegations and found it to be true and discovered that Judge Brenda
English was a part of the scheme and they called The Texas Judicial
Commission and the judge was removed from the bench.
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THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR 5 YEARS NOW AND THIS PAST MONTH THEY HAVE
GOTTEN
SO BRAVE AS TO TEAR MY SHIRT OFF OF ME IN MY OWN FRONT YARD!
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FORMAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Texas Police Brutality!
Royse City, Rockwall County, State of Texas
April 2000: The Royse City Texas police pushed me down deliberately,
ripping
my shirt off. This was done to scare me. They were hoping this scare
would
make me stop my lawsuit against them! I went to Lake Pointe Hospital in
Rowlett Texas for treatment after this incident.
I dialed 911 and the Rockwall County Sheriff came and got the police off
my
property (reluctantly), but they would not take my signed complaint on
him or
take the policeman to jail. I have pursued a lawsuit for my safety. After

tons of calls to attorneys, I found that they all required at least $5000

down payment. I had no money. But, after five years of harassment from
these
government officials, an attorney finally took my case.
I now have the FIRST civil rights lawsuit against Child Protective
Services
of Texas, and will be, according to my attorney, Douglas Larson at (972)
329-0160), the first suit that is going to be won against CPS.
The truth of Texas' corrupt good ole boys' behavior will come out.
Things will change and their misuse of power will stop on my family!
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The police told everyone in town that my home is a drug home.
There has" never" been illegal drugs at my home and never will but they
knew
we have prescription drugs. The police
told everybody in this 2000 population city that they should keep their
kids
away from my son, etc.

They have unjustly sent my 25 year old son to prison. They made more
false allegations on us and took my youngest son to Child Protective
Services for the reason that they was "concerned of him taking too many
prescribed medications", and they bizarely stopped his lifelong needed
prescriptions for his multiple birth defects and damaged him physically.
They beat my daughter black and blue and my attorney has the pictures.
They have now stooped so... low as to tear my clothes off of me while
throwing me down.
My ex had a professional government inspection business and they charged
him with so many false allegations and put him in jail and put a record
on him that is all lies. The Royse policemen wrecked into my vehicle and
came to my home to scare me so he would not have to pay for fixing my
car. I just went to his insurance company and told them. They paid me and
he said he would get me. He did through my ex by hurting my kids dad and
his business that helped them also. This officers flat bed trailer had
been stolen a year before he wrecked into me but after I made his
insurance company pay me, he lied and made a report that my ex had stolen
his trailer a year prior. They came and took my ex to jail and because no
one had the bond money to get him out, he took their plea or else he
would have been in jail a year.
The police shine spotlights in our windows about every 20 minutes every
dark moment of the night as scare tactics and sound their sirens.
The chief called the DPS medical facility and reported me as needing my
license taken away because I am disabled and he knew from digging in my
trash that I take prescription medications. I had to go through special
test to keep my license.
The police called the food stamp office and got them to stop my food
stamps. The worker told me the chief said a lot of people live in my
home. They stopped them for months and my son has sugar problems and he
could not keep his sugar regulated for lack of food because of the chiefs
lies. My son lost weight and he was already skinny from being sickly.
The chief called my government housing and did the same thing.
The small school's assistant principal, Terry Young conspired with the
chief also. They called my sons doctor and told Dr. Ceasar Gregerio in
Rockwall, and told him not to give my son any more excuse notes for
school for when he was absent and sick from school. The doctor
immediately called me and told me and he refused to let this cop scare
him into doing this illegal procedure. The corrupt principal then
proceded and gave my son and I a truancy even with a doctors letter
stating that due to my sons multiple birth defects, he requested
homeschool for my son. We was forced in Rockwall JP court and we won here
and they did a double jeopardy on this exact same truancy and took us to
Collin County JP Terry Douglas in Wylie Texas and won. I explained to the
judge that this was double jeopardy and he still illegally charged us.
The police illegally impounded my vehicles and sold one at their auction.
This vehicle was impounded for the reason of a SR-22 was filed on my
vehicle. This is perfectly legal and cannot legally be impounded for this
reason.
As friends left our home, they was arrested, etc. The police sit in
front of my home 24/7 with binoculars, etc.
Governor George Bush sent Texas Rangers to my door August 21, 2000 to
inform me that Bush was calling for an investigation of the local
government conspiracy on me and my family.
Of course, I am very concerned for mine and my childrens safety, etc.,
more now than before.
Bush became aware that 48 Hours Producer Patti Aronfsky, is
investigating my story and now he fears that he may look bad in the
elections.
I have many, many letters responding back to me from Bush from the past 4
years or so that states that he believes in his police forces in Texas.
Another words he was telling me that he believed the cops and not me. Now
he is pretending to care.
He called for a grand jury in Rockwall County Texas of the cops and of
course this was a joke.
September 9, 2000, a 17 year old boy, Dustin Hix, who is a witness for us
in my civil rights lawsuit against Royse City Texas police, was beat to a
pulp by Royse City police. Dustin is now in Parkland Hospital in Dallas
Texas where he is under going surgery for his face being beat so...
badly, which the doctors say may leave him blind in one eye.
Dustin was first handcuffed by Officer Nancy Guefston (mispelled) husband
with Nancy's handcuffs, and then Officer Nancy's husband and other Royse
officers proceeded to beat Dustin. Hunt County Sherriff removed the
handcuffs off Dustin as they approached the scene as this happened in
Hunt County. This happened at a party of Officer Nancy's nephews home.
Officer Nancy and other officers distributed alcohol to these minors and
shared drinking with them. Royse City is a three county town, consisting
of Hunt County, Rockwall County, and Collin County. Hunt County Sherriff
took Dustin to Greenville Texas Hospital whom sent him to Parkland due to
the seriousness of the damages.

This is just a "small part" of this 5 year torture on my family. Please
read the web site below that tells more?
I am seeking to find a producer or agent to make this true awful story
into a movie
I have no knowledge of the entertainment business.
Thank you so.... much,
Brenda Pitts Bennett bpb123@earthlink.net
http://www.american-prisons.co.uk/policebrutality.htm
(972) 636-2404 Fax # (413) 556-1891
701 Meadowdale
Royse City, Texas 75189

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