So the cop can create a self-consistent time loop, where he predicts that you will resist arrest, arrest you for this specific crime, and if you resist that arrest, that retroactively makes the arrest legal. (Sorry, I don’t have a link, but at least in one situation the court said that such reasoning was okay.)
Here’s an example via one of my favorite blogs, if you’d like to have a look. Summary—a lawyer who was verbally objecting (calmly) to a cop’s interaction with her client was told that she would be “arrested for resisting arrest” if she did not stop verbally objecting. She said “please do” and was promptly arrested and left handcuffed in a holding cell for an hour. Whole thing caught on camera—the interaction takes less than two minutes.
On a more serious note, the arrest of Sandra Bland followed similar lines. Again, all on camera—the officer’s own dash cam, not a bystander’s recording.
Just the fact that something is too complicated to prove, doesn’t make it automatically false. Doesn’t make it automatically true, either. It’s true that higher average racism in general society most likely implies higher average racism among cops. It’s also true that innocent black people are going to be killed disproportionally more often whether there is a racism or not. So… further research is needed?
That’s a neat, clear statement of what I took over a thousand words to say. What is this sorcery!
Here’s an example via one of my favorite blogs, if you’d like to have a look. Summary—a lawyer who was verbally objecting (calmly) to a cop’s interaction with her client was told that she would be “arrested for resisting arrest” if she did not stop verbally objecting. She said “please do” and was promptly arrested and left handcuffed in a holding cell for an hour. Whole thing caught on camera—the interaction takes less than two minutes.
On a more serious note, the arrest of Sandra Bland followed similar lines. Again, all on camera—the officer’s own dash cam, not a bystander’s recording.
That’s a neat, clear statement of what I took over a thousand words to say. What is this sorcery!