A video showing a woman complaining about being punished by authorities for not wearing a face mask properly inside her car recently went viral on social media.

She claimed she was stopped by the police for pulling down her mask for a few seconds to breathe while driving. She criticized the punishment imposed by the officials, who required her to wait in line with other violators before eventually undergoing a quick trial to determine her punishment.

“They don’t maintain physical distance. It’s really not right because I’m healthy and going along in my car. Now they have stopped me and asked me to wait next to strangers whose [health] conditions I don’t know about,” she says in the footage.

A motorcyclist in Pasar Minggu, South Jakarta, became enraged on Thursday when authorities stopped her for not wearing her mask properly. She refused to be sanctioned as she claimed she only pulled down her mask temporarily to call her son, so she could speak more clearly.

“It’s not that I don’t wear mask. I do,” she said, as quoted by kompas.com.

She added that the officials should also have punished the people around her, who she said were not maintaining physical distance, among other transgressions.

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