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MCMINNVILLE, OR (KPTV) - A Willamina woman was arrested Friday night in connection to a possible intimidation crime caught on camera in McMinnville.
Amber Rocco, 39, was arrested just before 8 p.m. and is facing two counts of intimidation in the first degree, two counts of unlawful use of a weapon, two counts of menacing and two counts of harassment.
Officers with the McMinnville Police Department arrested Rocco after they say she was caught on camera with a knife yelling racial slurs during a confrontation.
The charge of intimidation is considered a hate crime in Oregon.
Officers say they were called out to a parking lot in the 600 block of Northeast Highway 99W at 2:30 p.m. on Dec. 23 to reports of a disturbance involving people in two vehicles. When officers arrived, those people were no longer at the scene.
Two days later, police talked to Emora Roberson, the woman who captured video of the incident.
Basement Beat
(659 posts)Throw the book at these braindead assholes.
MagickMuffin
(15,952 posts)She is sooooo deserving of ALL the charges brought against her!
ETA:
Rocco was lodged at the Yamhill County Jail. Her bail is set at $55,000.
The bail is way too low. It should be double that amount.
Solly Mack
(90,785 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,342 posts)I swear, it's a thing with these people. Some weird, primal, animal thing.
phylny
(8,386 posts)Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)Is that from meth you think?
phylny
(8,386 posts)Electrical Arc
(38 posts)Go to prison. 20 years, methy mcmetherson.
Takket
(21,625 posts)I hope the media follows up with her employer, if she has one, to find out if she's been fired.
a kennedy
(29,706 posts)dalton99a
(81,570 posts)Demovictory9
(32,475 posts)bitterross
(4,066 posts)As soon as I saw the woman's face I thought "meth head." Meth is still an issue here even though opioids are a far larger problem.
McMinville is in southern Oregon. That is an area that is just as racist and bigoted as if it were Alabama or Mississippi . The woman in the car was correct about being in a "white-assed town."
People think of Oregon as this great, liberal bastion. Once you get out of the Portland-metro or Salem areas you're right back in Deliverance territory though.
FreeState
(10,580 posts)Its juat south west of Portland - no were near the southern border or the most Bible Belt of OR (eastern OR).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMinnville,_Oregon
bitterross
(4,066 posts)I guess I made an error. Thinking of everything South of Portland-metro as southern Oregon.
East/South -either one doesn't really matter once you get out of the metro areas. Same backawards-ass GOP people as in AL or MS.
Cha
(297,650 posts)the University is.
oasis
(49,407 posts)LuckyCharms
(17,457 posts)Cha
(297,650 posts)nice
Cha
(297,650 posts)the Scourge of Racists.. violent and otherwise.
Remember that blond woman who was drunk and said she was "50 and hot"? She got Fired for harassing two African American Women in the parking lot in Charlotte, North Carolina?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/north-carolina-woman-susan-westwood-fired-could-be-charged-for-harassing-black-sisters-in-viral-video/
Demovictory9
(32,475 posts)"I'm hoooot"