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The women were reported by tourists who were uncomfortable with their breasts and nipples being visible.

At the end of January, a video showing three topless women sunbathers being escorted from Necochea beach in Argentina went viral.

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According to reports, a group of tourists took issue with the women sunbathing topless and reported them to police.

When officers arrived, the women refused to leave and the situation escalated. A large number of police officers arrived — along with a crowd of spectators.

Eventually the women put on their tops and left, and were later charged under Argentina's code of misdemeanors. The charges were eventually dropped.

One of the women involved posted about the incident on social media. Her story went viral.

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This is it, our massive police force seems to be so bored that they decided to send six patrols with almost 24 officers (all armed), to suppress the terrible crime committed by three women on the beach of sunbathing with their tits out.

Really, you see, we were quietly spending a wonderful day on the beach with my daughters and friends, my daughter and her girlfriend weren’t wearing bikini tops, when three policemen showed up to tell them that they should put them on.

The reason, according to the police, was that they were being exhibitionists!!!!! I explained to the man that he was wrong because I had no intention of exhibiting anything but only to get some air and sun on our bodies, just as men do.

He didn’t understand the argument, and started being intimidating, with the intention of enforcing his orders.
To show solidarity with my daughter and my respect for her decision not to wear a bikini top, I also took mine off, stating that it was my right and I exercised it.

He ended up retiring and returning, three times, with more and more police officers each time, and once we put our tops back on, they returned, this time with over 20 officers behaving in a very intimidating manner, claiming that there were people who had asked us to cover up and again accusing us of exhibitionism, and later to infringing on municipal regulations (public safety enforces those norms in any case).

They threatened to take us away several times, we are going to have to put you in handcuffs, an officer told me. The beach was divided in two camps and when I asked how many people there were against us sunbathing without a bra, a few hands raised.

Among them was a young man with his son who was violently screaming, saying that it was not possible for women to walk around with their tits out, that we should be arrested, which clearly made his son very nervous. One of the officers that seemed to be the most most senior one took me aside to explain that they did not want the situation to happen to someone older.

I explained that they had generated this conflict and that it was the violent man they should be taking care of, not the three women who wanted the freedom to sunbathe without a bra.

We finally left after a lot of discussions, with the knowledge that the police with their totally macho attitude understood that it has no right to force women to wear a top on the beach.

A knot in the stomach, a helpless situation and the knowledge that if we had been accompanied by men nothing would have happened. Abuse of authority .. macho violence. Institutional violence. Because this is the police ????

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