People Issue: Theresa Dang and Maria Zacarias Are Checkpoint Chingonas!
Updated: Sep 16, 2020
As good friends, Theresa Dang and Maria Zacarias share many things: biking, cooking, a love of activism, loud laughs, and a night in jail that just might get them a chance to battle the Santa Ana Police Department's controversial checkpoint program in court. On Dec. 5, 2014, the pair helped CopWatch Santa Ana monitor a DUI checkpoint and offered rides to unlicensed immigrants to avoid car impoundment. Santa Ana's finest paid the two in kind with cuffs, hauling off Zacarias for obstruction and Dang for public drunkenness--never mind that Dang wasn't given a sobriety test in the field nor in jail, or that the mild-mannered Zacarias did nothing to provoke the blue.
Read more in the OC Weekly's People Issue special out on newsstands today!
http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2015/03/theresa_dang_maria_zacarias_checkpoints.php