paperboyNC
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adventurous said:I can easily replace it with one policy, which will eliminate all the conflicting situations.
* Stop resisting arrest
Simple. You have something to say? Say it to the cop or later to the judge. But flexing your muscles on a cop is not going to be wise in the long term.
I'll offer a personal counter point. The only time I was arrested in my life, I was charged with.. resisting arrest. Yes, my crime that I was arrested for was resisting an arrest that should never started in the first place. I was handcuffed and while handcuffed I was punched multiple times in the ribs and face by the cop. I have lasting health issues from this.
The cop was not on duty, not in uniform and was working private security for a bar. I was asked to leave after having a bit too much to drink and the only disagreement is that I wanted to pay the bartender prior to leaving. I was not disorderly prior to being asked to leave.
Are you saying the off-duty cop would have been perfectly justified in ending my life because of the fake resisting arrest?
It's not always so simple.
This was a long time ago, but my complaints with the state ethics board, police dept, etc. went nowhere. I even hired an attorney who was not able to get anywhere bringing the cop to justice. A few years later one of the friends that witnessed the incident forwards me an article that the cop was sentenced to 20 years in prison for producing his own homemade child pornography.
Apparently the whole thing wasn't a big deal to the cops because I was never even booked - I was released from handcuffs to my friends and the charges of resisting arrest were dropped the moment I hired the attorney.