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Resisting arrest. They don't need anything else
It's shocking how many people upvoted this incorrect information. You can't ONLY be charged with resisting, you must be charged with an initial crime and then instructed that you're being placed under arrest before you can be charged as having resisted. Cops try to act like it's the opposite probably hundreds of times a day across the US, but it's just one more lie among the rest they tell and it doesn't hold in court.
Don't worry, they are working for the boots on our necks...
You might eventually and with some great expense (even if you have a public defender, jail isn't cheap for poor people), but you won't beat the ride. They can and will destroy your life and livelihood with a trumped up charge for little more than knowing your rights. It doesn't matter if the charge sticks, the injustice has been done and freedom has been trampled.
No disagreement there. The justice system in America is anything but.
I hope you don't need a lawyer for this to drop.
Definitely not always and a court appointed one will do, but yeah, this is another case where cops can arbitrarily ruin people's lives and livelihoods.
Ruin lives = more extremists with nothing to lose.
Im always scared of court system. Buddies dad went 6 months on 1st time Misdemeanor defending a women from SA. Judge said he felt no remorse. Like no sh#!.
Except resting arrest is not a standalone crime. It has been rules many times that resting arrest can only be used if they are resting a legal arrest action.
Now, it doesn't stop cops from using it to remove someone from a location but the resisting arrest charge will always be dropped.
Good to know!