If you look at the George Floyd transcript, I think it’s a good case for “resisting arrest without violence.” He wouldn’t obey instructions about his hands at first. He kept falling down, wouldn’t get in the squad car, once he was in the car he wouldn’t stay in the car, etc.. He never hit the police as far as I can recall, or was violent to them. But he was a big big guy and it made it almost impossible for them to get him in the car to take him away. In fact, the position the police finally put him in – on the ground, with Chauvin’s neck on his neck or shoulder, was in order to keep him under control until the ambulance could come.

Given the comments made here and elsewhere, and the lack of compliance with police directives we have been seeing and discussing, I might have to rethink my attitude from back then. But does anyone here have an idea of just what such a charge might mean, and why my attitude may have been wrong?

Yep, the number I’ve seen from 2019 is 19.

In 2019 the number of police that died from felonious acts by perps was 48.
More detail on the police killings here: https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-releases-2019-statistics-on-law-enforcement-officers-killed-in-the-line-of-duty

Resisting arrest ought to be a five to ten year sentence. Assaulting a cop should be an automatic 15 to 25. Killing a policeman should be an automatic death sentence with only one appeal allowed. Time to start protecting our police.

I used to think that American collective common sense, when push came to shove, would rule the day. But with so many folks looking to the Democrat Party as their savior, I’m still hopeful but I have my doubts.

Those famous words come to mind – “. . . if you can keep it”.

And, I suspect, a similar number or greater number of unarmed white men were killed. The studies I’ve read about suggest that per encounter, the numbers are similar (in fact a bit higher for whites).

These and more questions arise when police try to arrest a suspect who resists. The answers must be arrived at in seconds. Training helps, but mistakes will be made. Police are humans who want to stay alive and unharmed as much as anyone. We give them a lot of authority because they are dealing with the worst of society, doing a job most of us will not do.

Interestingly, there were over ten million arrests made in 2019. During that time only 13 unarmed black men were killed during arrests. There were, no doubt, many more cases where suspects resisted arrest, but non-lethal procedures allowed a successful outcome. Considering the number of arrests, the number of deaths of unarmed black suspects is amazingly small. It certainly does not show racial bias or an attempted holocaust against black perpetrators.

Resisting arrest is a crime. When a suspect fails to follow orders it can lead to all kinds of problems for both the cop and the suspect. The worst outcome is death or permanent injury. IMO, our leaders, particularly black leaders, should be making statements about not resisting arrest. Like public service announcements about wearing masks and social distancing, statements from leaders about not resisting arrest might change the way these tragic encounters go down. It also might are change the way these encounters are viewed by the public at large. Well, it’s a thought.

Even so, police seem to get fair treatment most of the time. The cops in the Eric Garner and Michael Brown cases were acquitted, George Zimmerman was acquitted, despite the politics (or maybe because of the politics–backlash). Of course that doesn’t stop the left from keeping Garner, Brown, Martin et al in their pantheon of “victims,” but juries seem to do the right thing in these cases.

The default position is that they’re telling you lies. And then telling other lies to back up the original ones.
You have to wait a bit to sort it all out. And look at other sources of information.
But even then…

(In the following trilogy, Andrew McCarthy shows how it’s done, at least by professionals:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/08/kevin-clinesmith-guilty-plea-russia-probe-lying-about-lying/
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/08/clinesmith-guilty-plea-using-a-digraph-to-conceal-a-massive-deception-of-the-court/
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/08/clinesmiths-guilty-plea-the-perfect-snapshot-of-crossfire-hurricane-duplicity/ )

And speaking of lies (and justice)…. Mazel Tov to Alan Dershowitz on the 69th anniversary of his Bar Mitzvah. “Until 120”, good sir!! (Or, perhaps, the variant: “Until 100—as if you were still 20”!)
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16421/alan-dershowitz-pursue-justice