This is seriously troubling

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by jms62

These are the facts Rupe

http://justice.gawker.com/nypd-has-a...nto-1684017767

They are setting the table that any Civil disobedience in the future will be met with the potential to charge someone with a felony. Meanwhile the middle class is getting pushed more and more and if at some point in the future they wish to speak out and protest well guess what they do it at the risk of being charged with a felony if a cop with a hard on tells you to leave and you do not. If this doesn't scare the **** out of you, then you are living in LALA land.. Sounds like an Oligarchy to me Rupe. But wait DA's and Cops won't do that because well it is the right thing to do. The current law works just fine.

I read your article. I'm not in favor of anyone being charged with even misdemeanor resisting arrest if they aren't truly resisting. And some cops do lie. We all know that. There have been plenty of cases where police roughed someone up because they claimed they were resisting. Then it turns out someone filmed the whole thing on their phone and it turns out the cop was lying. If I was a juror in a resisting arrest case with no video, I wouldn't necessarily believe the cop.

Anyway, you raised a good point in one of your other posts with regard to assaulting an officer versus resisting arrest. If the police are trying to arrest someone and he punches them, I don't why they couldn't just charge the person with assault on a police officer. If they can, then there may not be a need for the resisting arrest charge to be a felony (especially if assaulting a police officer is a felony. I'm not sure if it is).