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 D.A 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 24/24h and seven days a week) 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 has stopped at my home and forced every person of color to give thepolice 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 D.A 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.

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.
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 D.A for help-- and the Rockwall Grand Jury would not
indict for fear of publicity.

Now I realize that the D.A and the Grand Jury are just as guilty as the police.
They should have stopped these police years ago. The D.A 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 deputies to stop us and harass 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 deputy, 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 were 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.

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!

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 $5000down 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!


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.

My son, Chad Bennett, was sentenced to 8 year probation 10 years ago when he was 18 years old, for what was labeled a "burglary of a habitat" which in reality was not a burglary. My son knew another guy whom lied to me and said his family had gone on vacation and his dad told him to be packed up and moved by the time the family got home from vacation. He "supposidly" needed to sell his TV and stuff in his bedroom to be able to rent an apartment. I allowed my daughter and son to go with him from my home to pick up these items I bought for a reasonable price. When my son and daughter went to the home with him, there was about 50 other kids there that this boy had had staying with him there for a week and they had destroyed the house, I was told.  In reality this boy had been given the key to the home by his girlfriend whom lived in this home to stay there until she got home without her daddy's knowledge. My son was charged with burglary of this even though I wrote Judge Bosworth from Rockwall County Texas and explained the story because I could not get Chad's court appointed attorney to do anything to help him. The appointed attorney told us he would not fight against this case for Chad, because the D.A wanted to "get my son". Therefore Chad was put on probation for 8 years. Chad violated his probation for the reason of: " he did not pay his probation fines". Chad didn't pay his fines because we was financially strapped at the time. Chad was sent to prison for this!! Chad stayed in prison for four years and never had a case against him. He was released in October 2000 and returned to prison on a violation of parole in March 2001. The parole process is so.. ridiculous that they constantly were trying to violate it for no reason at all. He wore a leg monitor which he should have never been put on because he was not violent in any way and was not a trouble maker. I later learned from the monitor people that it was in the budget for that monitor to be on a leg and so my son's leg was the only one available at the time.  We live in the country and the monitor installer told us the signal was not picking up properly. Therefore Chad's monitor went off often and the prison would call us at all hours of the night many times a night with threats of sending Chad back to prison because their stupid monitors wouldn't work properly. I had to constantly call his parole officer to help defend my son. .... While my son was out on parole, this same chief of police and neighbor gave my son Chad a DUI in my neighborhood as he knew every step we made because he had a parole car sitting in front of my home 24/24 h. and seven days a week. My son was not drinking and had been at my home all day. He was taken to this smallest county in Texas jail of Rockwall and this violated his parole. My son was videoed at his arrest in which the attorney seen and this proved my son was not guilty of a DUI and therefore the judge dropped the case. Since this screwed this sick chief of police's game, they put other lieing charges on my son as they was trying to do anything to send him back to prison. My son was then immediately put in segergation for his tatoo as he was booked in. Chad had this same tatoo his four years of prison as we and the prison have pictures to prove this and never did they put him in seg before for this same tatoo.  We believe our sick chief of police put something on Chad's records that he was a gang member and my son has repeatidly filed grievences denying these acusations. I have argued with the prison administration over a year now for these accusations also with no avail. My son came up for parole but was denied even though he still has no cases against him which is so.. ridiculous!! Chad has been in segregation for a year now with no human touch, food enough for a 4 year old, heat factor in seg reaches 110 to 140 degrees heat factor with no circulation at all in which many inmates die of in Texas each year, guards gassing and pepper spraying every day and the spray accumulates in the cells with no way to get out, no TV,  inmates stay in their cells 24/24h and seven days a week, showers are denied them repeatidly, water is often shut off, etc. This is so... inhumane for the worst criminals and so awful for the non violent criminals also!

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 were arrested, etc. The police sit in of my home 24/24h and seven days a week 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.. 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.
In other 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's (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, and read the whole story..
I am seeking to find a producer or agent to make this true awful storyinto a movie.... I have no knowledge of the entertainment business. But if my story becomes a movie, I bet nobody will think it is a TRUE story!
Thank you so much,
Brenda Pitts Bennett.Copbrutality has been the Top Site for February, 2001


(footnote)...the girl who gave my son the pass key to the house he was accused of burgularizing is: Kathleen Quigley. And that Kathleen Quigley even went to the District Attorney in Rockwall County immedictely after my son and Toby Almond was accused of burgularizing her home and she told the DA that they DID NOT BURGULARIZE the home and she had given Toby the pass key to stay in her home until she returned from vacation in new York. The DA had this evidence and told her to leave and not tell a soul of her admittance of this. He wanted that desperately to put my son in prison knowing full well that Kathleen said he did not burgularize her home!