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On December 21, 20161 was set up for both assault and to have almost all of my personal property permanently taken upon threats to do so by several ranking guards at the Clements Unit in Amarillo, Texas where I am confined.
The Why
At around eleven o' clock a.m. on Dec. 21 st, I was confronted by Captain Patricia Flowers and lieutenant Crystal Turner and told to allow myself to be handcuffed to be removed from my solitary confinement cell. Several weeks prior to this, I had a run-in with Flowers while she was making rounds in my cell block along with others, including the Major Leeroy Cano.
Another prisoner asked me if she was the new segregation unit captain; I told him "yes" and she was taking the place of the previous captain Donald Dean, who was apparently under investigation for an incident involving another guard. I told him her full name. At that time Flowers was talking to another prisoner in a cell across from me. When I said this she turned to me and stated, "You need to shut the fuck up!" I replied in a humored tone that her "potty mouth isn't professional." She responded that she knew who I was, and I have a habit of putting my own mouth in things that I
"have no business; you call it 'exposing us' huh?" She then stated if I didn't learn to stop running my mouth, "I'll take all your shit!" I asked for what reason she could justify taking my belongings. She answered, "I don't have to have a reason." I then addressed Major Cano about her threat as he walked by and he only smiled at me and kept going.
When I was then confronted by her on Dec. 21 st, she had me taken to a holding cell by a guard Andrew Leonard. "While I was in the cell, at separate times Flowers and Turner came past me and I asked what was going on. Both stated they were taking all my belongings because I don't know how to "mind [my] own business." Again I asked. Flowers how she could justify taking my things when most of it is legal. She replied that it was "improperly stored," and...