Arrested for dancing at Jefferson Memorial

Originally posted by RE: Blaxican
Could you extrapolate? This crappy mechanism with which I am using to surf the internet refuses to make love with Google.

Plummer v. State: “Citizens may resist unlawful arrest to the point of taking an arresting officer's life if necessary.”

Runyan v. State and Miller v. State: “When a person, being without fault, is in a place where he has a right to be, is violently assaulted, he may, without retreating, repel by force, and if, in the reasonable exercise of his right of self defense, his assailant is killed, he is justified.”

Housh v. People “An arrest made with a defective warrant, or one issued without affidavit, or one that fails to allege a crime is within jurisdiction, and one who is being arrested, may resist arrest and break away. lf the arresting officer is killed by one who is so resisting, the killing will be no more than an involuntary manslaughter.”

As Robtard pointed out: you had better be damn well sure that you are 100% in the right before you start resisting arrest or you could cause much more trouble for yourself in the long-run.

However, in the case of this thread, they were 100% in the right IFF they had a license to protest (usually about $10). That means those guys could have resisted arrest up to an including defending themselves till the officers died.

Originally posted by inimalist
logically though, if you resist arrest you are going to get your ass kicked, regardless of what rights you have

man, ive seen so many underage kids beaten for just dancing....

Most of the time, that's true. There are a few instances where the "arrestee" can quite nicely defend himself against 2 or 3 "arrestors." The cops in the video? They looked like "regular everyday normal guys."

Originally posted by dadudemon
Most of the time, that's true. There are a few instances where the "arrestee" can quite nicely defend himself against 2 or 3 "arrestors." The cops in the video? They looked like "regular everyday normal guys."

no, I agree, but I don't see this as one of those situations

the cops said outright, and I agree they shouldn't have the right to do this, that dancing would not be allowed

whether legal or not, they drew the line, and it is in the job description of police officers not to back down. As stupid as it sounds, dancing was an escalation, even though I can't agree more that it shouldn't be.

most times when you deal with cops, they don't care about what your rights should be, is all I'm saying

Originally posted by inimalist
no, I agree, but I don't see this as one of those situations

Originally posted by inimalist
the cops said outright, and I agree they shouldn't have the right to do this, that dancing would not be allowed

Which made me lol. "Dancing"? Really?

Originally posted by inimalist
most times when you deal with cops, they don't care about what your rights should be, is all I'm saying

That's true, sometimes, but not all of that time. Some people join the force to, literally, protect and serve the people they love. They think that the idiot criminal busting into granny's home and robbing/raping her needs to be protected. They think pulling people out of burning cars in traffic accidents is what they want to do.

Then there's the bunch that want to constantly exact their power and control over the people around them. They get strong feelings of satisfaction and even euphoria from a successful power-trip. I hate these types. 😐