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Texas woman arrested after taking down Confederate flag that flew near her elderly parents' home [1]

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Date: 2023-02-03

45-year-old Rosie Yanas has dealt with so much since her son, Christopher Stone, was killed during a massacre in 2018 at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas. But lately, Yanas, who has been a caregiver to her elderly parents at their home, had to deal with a neighbour proudly hanging their Confederate flag.

She says their neighbor intentionally flies the Confederate flag on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays and makes sure they all see it. Yanas has been dealing with a lot of changes and tragedies. Not only is she now a caregiver, but she's also a grieving mother. "He waited for me to come out at 2:00 in the afternoon, on the way to my brother's, put that flag up and said 'Merry (expletive) Christmas.' On the first Christmas after I lost my son, and you are going to tell me I don't have a right to do something. I do everything I can to keep the peace, but a person can only take so much."

Last week, police in Santa Fe have arrested Yanas for trespassing and resisting arrest. Officials have claimed that Yanas defied her past criminal trespass warning by removing the flag and tossing it in the yard.

Police have been frequent visitors to the location in recent years because of an ongoing dispute over a Confederate flag that her parents’ neighbors keep putting up, Houston attorney Randall Kallinen said. The flag extends from their property over onto either public property or her parents’ property, Kallinen asserts, and says Yanas removed it without stepping on her neighbor's property. He compared it to having a neighbor with a tree whose branches come onto your property, and argued she didn’t do anything illegal by removing it. “Before this, not a single officer had told her this was a crime,” he said.

Ronny Turrentine, the brother of the Confederate flag-waving home owner, practically came to the defence of the Confederate symbol. He said that the battle flag “had nothing to do with [race]”, and he also iterated that he befriended “Spanish people” in the Marine Corps. During a news conference last Friday, Turrentine had a heated exchange with Robert Quintero, the President of LULAC Council #151.

"Aqui estamos y nos los vamos. And for you over there that are watching from that property, bilingually challenged. We're here, and we're not going anywhere," Robert Quintero, President of LULAC Council No. 151 said. "You don't need to be hollering at them," Ronny Turrentine shouted. "I can holler anywhere I want," Quintero replied. [...] "I just hope that this can get cleared up. Everybody lives in peace, and she would keep her thoughts and mouth to herself," Turrentine said.

x Just because she thinks the flag is there to intimidate her and her parents doesn't mean it's true. They have the right to fly it and she does not have the right to take it down. It sounds like she is the intimidator. — Robert O (@just1american) February 4, 2023

Attorney Robert Kallinen claimed that Yanas faced no prior warnings from the police. Kallinen and several community leaders have called on the US Department of Justice to investigate the Santa Fe Police Department over the arrest, and they have also urged the Galveston County District Attorney’s Office to not pursue charges against Yanas. The arrest remains under review by prosecutors, as of this writing.

Santa Fe is a town located roughly 45 minutes southeast of Downtown Houston. In addition to the 2018 Santa Fe High School shooting, Santa Fe is notorious for having a high concentration of racial hatred.

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