{"id":10981,"date":"2010-06-18T00:38:17","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T06:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oooorgle.com\/wordpress\/?p=10981"},"modified":"2011-04-09T12:31:18","modified_gmt":"2011-04-09T19:31:18","slug":"resisting-arrest-charge-is-turning-our-country-into-a-police-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/resisting-arrest-charge-is-turning-our-country-into-a-police-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Resisting Arrest Charge is Turning our Country Into a Police State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/images\/PoliceState.png\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.copblock.org\/323\/resisting-arrest-charge-is-turning-our-country-into-a-police-state\/\" target=\"_blank\">CopBlock.org<\/a> | In practice, the effects of this charge disturbingly fall on undeserving victims. Strangely, people can be charged with nothing else but resisting arrest \u2013 meaning that there only crime was resisting arrest. This makes little sense. In essence, there was no reason to arrest them, but since they resisted their wrongful arrest,  they are now criminals.<\/p>\n<p>The California Penal code (\u00a7148) defines Resisting\/Delaying\/Obstructing an Officer or Emergency Medical Technician as follows:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery person who willfully resists, delays or obstructs any public officer, peace officer, or an emergency medical technician\u2026in the discharge or attempt to discharge any duty of his or her office or employment\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This law is somewhat vague, and assumes that officers \u201cin the discharge or attempt to discharge\u201d their duty are always doing the right thing. Herein lies the problem. In fact, sometimes officers do harass people for absolutely no reason, and when people rightfully resist, the officers use the \u201cresisting arrest\u201d charge as a subjugation or punishment for resisting their authority.<\/p>\n<p>An interesting case is that of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol Officer who stopped an ambulance transporting a patient because the ambulance driver did not yield for the officer (see video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TAdOY78OOSw\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>). The officer pulled the ambulance over, and when the paramedic tried to explain the emergency situation, the officer went into a rage and assaulted the paramedic. The officer was given 5 days suspension without pay (see article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tulsaworld.com\/news\/article.aspx?subjectid=12&#038;articleid=20090722_12_0_STROUD845888&#038;allcom=1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.copblock.org\/323\/resisting-arrest-charge-is-turning-our-country-into-a-police-state\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also See:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.komonews.com\/news\/local\/96353934.html?\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle officer punches girl in face during jaywalking stop<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/kInReukWy1E\" target=\"_blank\">Man Beaten &#038; Arrested For Having An Unzipped Jacket<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><br clear=\"Left\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CopBlock.org | In practice, the effects of this charge disturbingly fall on undeserving victims. Strangely, people can be charged with nothing else but resisting arrest \u2013 meaning that there only crime was resisting arrest. This makes little sense. In essence, there was no reason to arrest them, but since they resisted their wrongful arrest, they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[36,836],"class_list":["post-10981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-police-state","tag-resisting-arrest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}