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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/04/woman-facing-
foreclosure-arrested-at-wells-fargo-executives-home.html

A disabled woman facing eviction from her South Gate home was 
arrested Thursday night following a two-hour standoff between 
police and 80 protesters outside the home of Wells Fargo Bank 
Chief Financial Officer Tim Sloan.

The group also was challenging a San Marino ordinance requiring 
demonstrators to stay 150 feet from a protest target�s home or 
75 feet from the curb, a law enacted by the San Marino City 
Council after a protest in front of Sloan�s home on Oct. 5.

�They want to kill the Constitution in that town and we aren�t 
going to stand for it,� said David Mezarioegos, an organizer 
with the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment.

San Marino police initially held off from enforcing the 
ordinance, instead working with organizers to keep loudly 
chanting demonstrators with ACCE and the Service Employees 
International Union at the edge of Sloan�s lawn.

�We�re not here to hardball anybody, violate their civil rights. 
As long as it stays peaceful and doesn�t damage any property, 
we�re good,� said Sgt. Robert Cervantes.

If police applied the letter of the ordinance on Woodstock Road, 
a 30-foot-wide, 500-foot-long cul de sac of eight homes, 
demonstrators would have had to stage in front of another home.

Police also allowed Ana Casas Wilson, who suffers from cerebral 
palsy and uses a motorized wheel chair, to wait 15 minutes at 
Sloan�s door with a mortgage payment on her foreclosed home. 
Casas Wilson, who has lived on the property for 27 years, said 
Wells Fargo has been unwilling to negotiate a loan modification 
although she is once again able to make payments after falling 
behind during a hospital stay.

About a dozen San Marino officers were joined at the scene by a 
handful of Pasadena police, while dozens of officers from 
Pasadena, South Pasadena, San Gabriel and Alhambra � many in 
crowd-control gear � waited on surrounding blocks.

Just before 8 p.m., about 90 minutes into the demonstration, 
police formed a line around the home, declared the assembly 
illegal and ordered the group to move 75 feet up the street.

Casas Wilson refused to go and was taken to San Marino police 
headquarters with the assistance of San Marino Fire Department 
paramedics.

�I�m doing this because people need to see what the banks are 
doing. It�s awful. It has to stop,� Casas Wilson told the 
Pasadena Sun. �When I was down and out in the hospital they took 
my house.�