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Well, I see how she has good case but it is highly abse nt minded at best to forget to give your legal name to police. Supposedly she was admonished for giving an incorrect name. Personally, having had so many bad experiences with police because of my hispanic heritage, I find most of what they claim easy to be dismissed as a lie. Still, this is a somewhat unusual case. The Portland Tribune has documented that African Americas were much more likely to be arrested due to not paying tri--met fair. I'm sure the same goes for Latinos but at a slightly less percentage. To have the situation escalate to additional charges seems to me to be very unusual, but if it is the norm, that's total racial profiling. Too bad that so meone in her position isn't aggragating to reform police or the CRC as a PAC should be. My final opinion is she probably has anger management problems, definately has basic memory and common sense issues going on, and
the People of Color PAC she manages is likely just as corrupt as the city council and other state officials.
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"Ana" is a former aid of Steve Novick's and was Senior Policy Aolicyr for Ted Wheeler. No doubt she played a part in creating the "arrest and harrass activist policy" and in having "city hall speakers" get thrown out and arrested policy". No doubt Ana was as high as a kite when she was arrested. How else can you explain someone who personally wrote the harshest arrest policy on civil rights in Portland's modern history behaving like this? She definitely deserved this arrest. What goes around, comes around.
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Go ahead and air speculations to the public as you wish, random commenters, but I have to point out that Ana del Rocío has never worked for Steve Novick, so the comment which says that is not only unrelated, but false as well. "LatinaVoterpdx" (lol) must be confusing Ana with her sister, Andrea Valderrama, which is pretty strange because they have different names and are different people.
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Dog bites mxn.
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Well, Emily, I am not certain that having a PAC director who cant sufficiently ride
tri-met peacefully, like all the non-government commuters somehow manage to, and who also has a sister named Andrea who worked for both Steve Novick and Ted Wherler as a Senior Policy Advisor, AKA the harshest dictator of policy regarding free speech and civil rights that Portland has ever seen, makes me feel even the slightest bit better about her. There must be something wrong with this family.

Got this i nfo from the Mid-County Memo website. May 1st, 2017.

"Relatives run for seats on same school boards"

Posted by Jack Rushall on May 1, 2017

midcountymemo.com/2017/05/relatives-run-…
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The fee for having your name legally changed is $150, which is $25 less than the ticket for not having proof of fare on TriMet.
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This seems like an abnormally harsh sentence for fare evasion. I know the charge now is for giving false identity, but how does PPB escalate a situation so that a simple missing fare results in jailing? I thought Trimet was planning to be less punitive.
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When you make up terms like LatinX, you honk it’s okay to go around giving fake names. So many people in Portland have a real name, but want to be called something else. Btw, I’m a Chicano.
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Nice work, Mercury, but dig that Willamette Week article on June 7, 2017 about a young mother named Ana del Rocio who complains about increased Tri-Met policing efforts (in the wake of the double-murder of two heroes, no less). Kinda relevant context.
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Not impressed with Ana or her gofund me campaign. She has had two kids she can't afford. How many more is she going to have??? She cant even afford a trimet ride!!

Found from XRay FM.

"Ana del Rocío, State Director of Color PAC, is a first-generation Chicana/Peruana based in Portland, Oregon. She is a mother of two young boys and is the past policy director to Multnomah County Commissioner Jessica Vega Pederson. Ana was elected to Director for Position 1 in the David Douglas School District in East Portland and joined Color PAC as its first State Director, January 2018. "

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