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Originally Posted by Robbie
That's because that's all you can do against a cop.
They can pull a gun on you, shoot you, taze you, beat the shit out of you, order you around...and you aren't allowed to defend yourself at all. Even if you struggle against them while they are beating your ass, they call it "resisting arrest"
Take that badge off of that fucker and take his gang of other guys wearing uniforms away and I wouldn't let him get away with two seconds of his bullshit. But with that badge? He can do whatever he wants to.
And yeah, you can "win" later in court. But that's AFTER he's had his way with you and broken your face and thrown you in jail and humiliated you.  |
I'm not sure about US law but in Canadian law you can resist an illegal arrest without penalty.
As to the people saying when he said he didn't live there he was trespassing, not necessarily so, he could have been on the property with permission.
That said a police officer isn't allowed to detain you because he thinks you might be trespassing, the officer needs evidence or needs some probable cause before he or she can arrest you or even detain you.
The police can't go up to someone and ask them if they live where they're standing and when they say no just automatically take them to the ground as if they are trespassing. That would be chaos.