I protest

Minister Parlón went to El suplement, on Catalunya Ràdio, the day after the police operation that cordoned off the center of the Catalan capital due to the threat from the very young vandals of Blocus. She responded to the accusations from the CUP, which Roger Escapa put to her: that the police had been carrying out identifications “for racial reasons.” She answered this: “After what happened last week in Barcelona, can anyone suggest that the police were carrying out identifications for ethnic reasons? Honestly? I don't think so.”

The police were identifying people. From what I was able to observe, in the first place, they were identifying many more males than females. The majority of those they stopped were males. Among these males, they almost exclusively stopped the youngest ones. And among the youngest, they stopped those who were wearing sweatshirts, tracksuits, and perhaps a bag. Among the young males with sweatshirts, tracksuits, and perhaps a bag, there were all kinds of skin colors or backgrounds, because among these little vandals there are rich kids and poor kids.

If the police identifications were racist, and we don't believe Minister Parlón, then they were also ageist, because the police disregarded old people in an intolerable and vexatious manner. They were also sexist, because they disregarded women, in a clear gender bias that considers that we cannot be criminals. And brand-obsessed, because they identified them according to the brand of clothing they were or were not wearing. Would a woman like me, had I gone dressed in Sita Murt, with a Dolce&Gabanna bag, white hair (with a blue rinse), not have been stopped? I protest.