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posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday August 18 2015, @09:51AM   Printer-friendly
from the next-time-send-it-to-the-chief dept.

According to The Guardian:

The unnamed woman, a resident of Petrer in Alicante, south-east Spain, posted the photo on her Facebook page with the comment "Park where you bloody well please and you won't even be fined".

The police tracked her down within 48 hours and fined her.

Apparently, this is allowed in Spain so that police can "avenge their dishonor".

This is exactly the sort of behavior that leads to public distrust of police.

This story is a new take on online liberties in Spain:

A woman in Spain has been fined €800 (£570) [$886] after she took a picture of a police car parked in a disabled bay. She fell victim to a controversial new gagging law in the the country that prohibits 'the unauthorised use of images of police officers that might jeopardise their or their family's safety or that of protected facilities or police operations.'

Spanish story (more elaborate) here

I'd add a snarky comment here, but everything I came up with is just trolling.
Summing up my feelings: Spanish police: SRSLY, WTF?!


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 18 2015, @06:50PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 18 2015, @06:50PM (#224547)

    What is normal is by definition not a privilege. Whatever reasoning that has been used to define being treated normally as white privilege should be thrown out and redone- or just admit that the whole thing is absurd and behave like a rational human being.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 18 2015, @08:35PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 18 2015, @08:35PM (#224589)

    What is normal is by definition not a privilege.

    Whats normal for whites isn't normal for everyone else. Non-whites are treated like sub-human scum, but whites have the privilege of being treated like human beings.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 18 2015, @11:28PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 18 2015, @11:28PM (#224663)

      I understood the GP's point to be that it is not a privilege because it is meant to be the standard by which everyone is addressed, therefore to call it white privilege is inaccurate and it should be called by its other name: racism.

      Because that is what it is when you persecute someone based on their race.