The battle for the Confederate flag continues in the Santa Fe area

SANTA FE, Texas. The Confederate flag in the Galveston County area sparked heated debate.

Rosie Janas, 34, says she was illegally arrested for taking down a flag from a fence that borders her parents’ home.

Yanas says it’s an ongoing problem that law enforcement has done nothing about.

“Since 2012, at least since 2012, this has been going on,” she said.

Her elderly Hispanic parents live in the East. Bellaire Street in Santa Fe. She believes that their neighbor deliberately planted a flag as a form of persecution.

“You will tell me that I have no right to do something,” Janas said. “No, I won’t stand for that. I don’t care how many times I have to do it.”

Ronnie Turrentine is the brother of the property owner.

“If someone wants to fly any flag, they have the right to do so,” Terrentin said.

Terrentin says Janas has broken the rules in the past.

“Most importantly, she demolished my brother’s fence, which we installed a few years ago,” he said. “They called law enforcement, then she got upset and went there, took down my brother’s flag on the fence that we put up.”

Both say the Santa Fe police were called multiple times. More recently, they appeared after she took down the flag.

Yanas says she was illegally arrested for trespassing and resisting arrest.

Now she is working with civil rights lawyer Randall Cullinen and other public figures in the hope of justice.

They are calling for an internal investigation by the Santa Fe Police Department and the Galveston District Attorney’s office to drop charges against her.

Janas is the mother of Chris Stone, one of the students killed in the Santa Fe mass shooting.

She says the problem has taken an emotional toll on their family.

“I told him, crying, I told him I was tired of all this,” she said. “I don’t have time to deal with him, deal with my parents and take care of my own life.”

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