Oregon law enforcement arrested a 39-year-old Willamina resident Friday after a video surfaced that showed a woman threatening a black couple in McMinnville with a knife while shouting racist slurs on Christmas Eve.

Police took her to the Yamhill County Jail, where she was being held Sunday on $55,000 bail. No court date has been set.

Emora Roberson, 20, told The Oregonian/OregonLive on Friday that she and her family stopped at a strip mall on Oregon 99W. They pulled up next to a pickup truck, whose driver began shouting slurs at them.

Amber Rocco

“My daughter was fast asleep, and this woman was basically trying to get into our car,” Roberson said. In addition to her 15-month-old daughter, Roberson said, she was with her boyfriend, Keysuan Goodyear, and aunt.

The woman slapped and spit on her boyfriend, according to Roberson, and pulled out a knife when Goodyear confronted her about her behavior. The video Roberson shot on her smartphone shows the woman with a knife in her hand, shouting profane insults.

“We eventually drove off. We still had Christmas shopping to do,” Roberson said. “My daughter woke up and was crying her head off.”

McMinnville police said they arrested Amber Rocco at about 7:50 p.m. Friday, with assistance from the Yamhill County Sherriff’s Office, Oregon State Police and Grand Ronde Tribal Police.

Rocco faces two felony counts of first-degree intimidation, two felony accounts of unlawful use of a weapon, two misdemeanor counts of menacing, and two misdemeanor counts of harassment.

Police did not say where they arrested Rocco. Willamina is a tiny city of roughly 2,000 residents split between Yamhill and Polk counties northwest of Salem, near Grand Ronde.

-- Mike Rogoway