https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/02/february-2-roundup-2/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Thu, 02 Feb 2017 19:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/02/february-2-roundup-2/comment-page-1/#comment-344115 Thu, 02 Feb 2017 19:00:00 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=62959#comment-344115 For the future:
Discard any charge of “resisting arrest” unless the incident is clearly recorded on a body-cam or other surveillance device.

]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/02/february-2-roundup-2/comment-page-1/#comment-344111 Thu, 02 Feb 2017 17:18:13 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=62959#comment-344111 Re: resisting arrest as a hate crime. “Resisting arrest” is a catch all term police use for arrests where they may have had no lawful reason to arrest the person. It is also used when the person is merely uncooperative (perhaps rightly so) or questioning why they have been stopped. For example, claiming (correctly) that this is in fact one’s own car or that one is lawfully sitting on one’s own porch have gotten people arrested for “resisting arrest”. There is quite a difference between such actions and jumping the officer and trying to kill him, but the category lumps them together.

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