If only Eric Garner wasn’t resisting arrest, he would be alive. NYPD defenders told me that as I covered the months of rage following the July death of the Staten Island man, as police tried to arrest ...

Under California law, resisting, delaying, or obstructing a police officer, while they are doing their job, can also be a stand-alone crime. There doesn't have to be an underlying charge. Captain Jeff ...

Police commissioner William Bratton told the Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC yesterday that there’s a trend of people resisting arrest. “What we’re seeing … over the last several months [is] a number of ...

It can probably be said that no one wants to get arrested. And oftentimes – whether right or wrong – a person may put up a fight to avoid going to jail. Under South Carolina law, that’s called ...

Handcuffed in the back of a Sterling Heights Police cruiser, Logan Davis knew he was being recorded by an in-car camera and said in frustration: "You see what they do to Black, young men in America ...

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