Why is it that always when someone is charged with "resisting arrest" and nothing else

[howard112211]

the story turns out to be an instance of fucked up cop behavior? :shrug:

Here is my suggestion: Let's make the law so that if cops arrest someone they need a GOOD reason to.

[jobycom]

1. Sometimes it's just easiest to prove.

Say for instance a cop has been called to a domestic violence scene, and the wife refuses to press charges, and denies anything happened, but she has bruises beginning to blacken on her face, and looks terrified, and the man is shooting her threatening looks the whole time. It's a convenient way to get him out of there.

Or a cop shows up at house that's just been robbed, and a man suddenly jumps out of the bushes and starts running. The cop may have no excuse to arrest him for burglary without investigation, but can still bring him in for resisting arrest or refusal to obey a reasonable command, or something like that.

Or sometimes a cop has a tip on something, and just uses "resisting arrest" or some other trumped-up charge as a way to "accidentally" discover some other crime. I once worked in a public place where a guy brought a gun into the business. He was part of a group that shouldn't be carrying guns in public places. My boss called the cops, and they stopped the guy for a routine charge, and in the process "discovered" the gun, without getting my boss in trouble for reporting the crime. It was the type of group who might have come back and shot the place up if they had known who turned them in.

A lot of times there's more to a story than you hear. When you hear these "routine traffic stop prevents major school shooting" or stuff like that, a lot, if not most, of the time the traffic stop is a cover story to protect an informant. I suspect that's true of Timothy McVeigh's arrest, too. I think someone was watching him but wasn't able to stop him, so they found a way to stop him afterwards and lock him up without revealing that someone had tipped them off about him. They took a few days to build a case that didn't involve their informant, then revealed that they had him. 9-11 might have been something like that, too, as quickly as they found stuff in such unlikely places.

Or sometimes the cop is a dick. There's plenty of those, too.

[RandomThoughts]

2. And sometimes a person is framed.

Proof of the ability to assemble circumstantial situations to show things, shows that many of the circumstantial trials are frames. There are lots of innocent people in jail.

Also if someone runs, some think they must be guilty, it might be that they have seen that free will choices have made the system unjust, and if you know it is unjust, you don't have to be guilty to run.


In my personal experiences, I do not run not because I think the system is just, but because weather it is or not, running is not the best choice, since that is not standing against injustice. And a cop after me is injustice, since I am already owed compensation, far above any cop action. Not because I am above the law, but because what many think of as cops, are acting unjustly. However there are good cops also.

Although I use to worry about things that I don't worry about anymore, so I use to move in some ways that could be thought of as running.


Belief in the status quo would allow someone to think only criminals run, or all people on trial are guilty. That is not the way it works, nor has it ever worked that way.

Funny thing, when I stood up to 'cops' that were bad, and they could not frame me, they smeared me instead, they proved their injustice, been on point ever since.


And as I said before, any existence that is unacceptable is the same, so it does not matter what happens until things get corrected. And until they do, know I do not respect those that choose to not make those corrections or block them. That is something I get to choose, who I respect and who I do not respect, and for what reasons.

[Warren DeMontague]

3. You have to wonder, if the only charge is resisting arrest, what the original arrest was supposed to

be for?

Can you get arrested for resisting the arrest for resisting that arrest? My head hurts.

[PJPhreak]

4. Supposedly...

For one to be charged with "Resisting Arrest" there needs to be a Primary Charge that one is being arrested for...and then one needs to display behavior that would reasonably lead a LEO to believe that you are trying to Resist and possibly leave the scene of such arrest/detainment ie: Running,psychical violence,struggling ect.

A "Resisting Arrest" charge is usually levied so as to remove a person/persons from the Street/area because the LEO feels that for whatever reason one needs "To be charged with Something"

This is only my personal experince...Others may Vary.

It is a Cheap Shot by LEO and nothing else...Most times if All you are being charged with is"Resisting Arrest" but there is no "Primary Charge" which would allow a LEO to Arrest you Without Resistance then most Courts will Drop the Charge.