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We developed a simulation that involved making an anonymous call to the police to warn them that a group of citizens had gathered in the public space to organize a demonstration.
However, what the police found when they arrived at the scene was a group of targets like those used by police commandos in their target practice, but the silhouettes now represented a “target” in the position of nonviolent resistance.
This “operation” was recorded on video and posted on a discussion forum of the Spanish National Police Force, along with a series of laws describing the commitments of the police to society.
This project was a response to the preliminary draft reform of the Criminal Code promoted by Minister of Justice Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón in 2012, which included considering nonviolent resistance an attack on authority, punishable by imprisonment. In 2015, the draft bill was finally approved by the Spanish government, in the hands of the Partido Popular with an absolute majority at the time, and the opposition of the rest of the political forces, and became popularly known as the “Gag Law”.