WITNESS STATEMENT

PART ONE
						
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WITNESS STATEMENT

PART TWO


I,_________________________________,  do hereby voluntarily and of my own free will, make the following statement without having been subjected to any coercion, unlawful influence, or unlawful inducement.

Statement 
Michael Lynn Mincy   8/20/1998
Report on Haltom City Police



     On April 17, 1996, at about 9:30pm, I was stopped behind the stop sign at the intersection of Denton Highway (US 377) and Mallory Drive, Haltom City. I had the right turn signal indicator of the the car turned on in the '76 Plymouth I was in at the time.
     As I began my entrance onto the Denton Highway, heading Southward, a Haltom City Police car passed by me heading in exactly the opposite direction, Northward, and immediately after it passed in
front of me, the police car slowed down, and began to make a "U" turn in the middle of the highway, and turned Southward, after I had entered the highway and traveling Southward.  I watched this in my rearview mirror, and I continued to watch as the police car increased in speed untill it matched my speed at about 30 miles/hour.
     After seeing this, I noticed the police car was deliberately keeping pace with me, but was in the far right hand lane, and I was in the inside left lane. I shifted "down" into a lower gear to slow my car down to allow the police car to pass on by me. I did this to avoid being followed again, as another Haltom city police car had done on Saturday night, April 13, 1996.
     As I slowed down on the night of  April 17, 1996, the police car also slowed, and continued to follow behind me in the far right lane. This police car finally moved directly behind me, and followed me all the way to the intersection of Denton highway and Broadway Avenue. As I approached this intersection, I turned on my left signal indicator. I was attempting to turn left from Denton highway onto Broadway, and I did so when the street light turned  "green". The police car was still following me, even as I began turning into the parking lot of the Kroger Food Store at that location.
     As I proceeded into the Kroger parking lot, this time the police car continued  easterly on Broadway, but traveled slowly and I could see the face of the policeman clearly, starring straight at me constantly as he drove on, parallel with me as I traveled slowly easterly through the parking lot, but close to the street, and the police car was never more than about thirty to forty feet away. I finally parked the car I was 

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driving, and proceeded to walk to the entrance to the Kroger store, when as I arrived at the store entrance,
I stopped and turned  to look around the parking lot.
     When I did turn around, I saw the "same" police car "zig-zagging" around in the parking lot. Several times the officer tried to hide behind sevearl parked cars. And as I watched this, I walked back from the entranceto the Kroger store, and stood by the side of my car, while I waited for the chance to talk to the police officer, and all the while he continued to do nothing but travel around in circles in the parking lot, untill finally he drove out of the parking lot at about 9:35 to 9:40 pm. At that point I thought the whole incident was over, and I entered the Kroger Food Store.
     I left the Kroger  store at about 9:40 pm, and I started the car and drove from the Kroger parking lot to the K-Mart parking lot where it borders the Denton Highway. As I usually do, I turned my head to look to my left for "on-coming" traffic. When I did this, I saw this SAME policeman, hiding in the parking lot of the Exxon gas station, behind a "water and air" pump  at the Northeast corner of Denton Highway and Broadway.  
     I waited at that point for about a minute or two, then fearful that he intended to wait untill I got onto the highway, I instead drove toward him, while I was still in the parking lot of K-Mart, and then back awayfrom him, as I was trying to decide whether or not to take the chance on being followed again by this police officer, and I womndered what he would do if I got back onto the highway.
      I decided to try to make it home safely, and then I entered onto the Denton Highway from the K-Mart parking lot. As soon as I did this, I saw in my rearview mirror the same police car immediately enter onto the Denton Highway from the Exxon parking lot, with his "color" lights already on, and no siren. He quickly raced up behind me, still with his "color" lights on and without without a siren on, at about the intersection of Webster Street and Denton Highway.
     I continued to drive Nothward toward Mallory Drive at exactly 40 miles per/hour, the "legal" speed limit there. When I reached Mallory Drive, I immediately turned left onto Mallory, then I entered the driveway of my parents house at 5425 Mallory Drive,  the second house from the highway. 
     As soon as I stopped the car in the driveway, I began "sounding" the car's horn, to attract the attention of  my parents, who later told me they heard nothing. At that point, the police officer who had been following all this time, stopped his car immediately behind mine, out in the street, with his lights still "flashing". He also turned his "spot light" on me, at which time I held up my watch to see what time it was, and it was exactly 9:45 pm.
     Then the officer approached my car from behind and from the driver's side, and then yelled out, "Hey,
Lay off the horn!" I stopped the horn at that point. It was then that this officer "ordered" me "out" of the car, and I told him that I was NOT coming out . I also told him, "You KNOW I have done nothing wrong AND I will NOT get out!"
     At some point during all of this, the officer said that he was "suspicious of DWI", and I told him, "I DON'T DRINK AT ALL!" , and that, again, "I WON'T GET OUT!" Finally, at some point after this, the officer told me that under "TEXAS STATE LAW", HE had a "right" to arrest me then and there. I "demanded" to know from him "what it was that I had done wrong" AND I "reminded" him that he had been following me since I had first left Mallory Drive to begin with. I also told him, I was "tired" of being constantly followed and harassed by him and "other" Haltom City police officers for years. He said that he knew nothing about me and wasn't trying to "harass" me.
     Following this, at some point in time, this officer finally asked for my drivers license and the insurance papers for the car. After retreating back to his police car and to a second police car behind me, he told me then, that I could sign the "traffic ticket" OR face being "arrested". Under pressure of arrest AND fearing physical harm, I signed the "traffic ticket". 
     Then after that, he left, and no further action was taken against me. So the ONLY "crime" I had committed was "failure to use signal indicator" while he was "chasing" me down the Denton Highway on my way home. The time the ticket was issued as recorded by this officer was 22:00 hrs (10:00 pm),
which was about the time I also saw on my watch, and the time when this incident ended.
      After obtaining the Haltom City Municipal Court Records this past April 1998, I found that


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this officer's name is WALTER P. GROW, and "not" GROVE as I had thought before. His Haltom
City Police ID number is # 1177. 

                                                                  Michael Lynn Mincy




                                                                                                                          












































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