The typical law-and-order critic might say “he shouldn’t have resisted arrest.” If one is charged with assault or a serious crime, in addition to resisting arrest, that seems more plausible. One should be suspicious of a resisting-arrest charge, especially when it is the most serious charge. Those instances are often about enforcing power. Peter Moskos, a sociologist who became a cop for 20 months to study police, talks about this in his book. He calls them “just because” charges, which often include nebulously hard-to-refute things like “loitering” or “disorderly conduct.” Moskos argues that these allegations are often about asserting power, which seems to be the case here. A black man complained about being harassed and said “every time you see me you want to mess with me. I’m tired of it; it stops today.” The police were not okay with a black person asserting his own autonomy like that and attacked. The most serious charge in my arrest was Resisting Arrest. https://youtube/watch?v=dY2YvtIBIKg
Posted on: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 10:22:04 +0000
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