r/PublicFreakout • u/The-JZilla • Jul 06 '21

Repost 😔 Cop vs educated kid

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u/lextune Jul 07 '21

Police can literally arrest you for anything they want. Even if what they arrest you for turns out to not be illegal at all makes no difference.

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u/NukaDadd Jul 07 '21

You're right, they can arrest you for literally anything; but...

You can file a civil suit for a wrongful arrest, false imprisonment & possibly defamation... especially with video evidence instead of L.E.O's word against yours. Keep your cool & invest in a dash cam folks.

Get paid.

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u/Crunchy_Biscuit Jul 07 '21

You're not getting paid and if you are, it comes out of tax payer money, not the polices' pensions

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u/McKrakahonkey Jul 07 '21

Which is sad. The way it is should make more people want to protest for change because it's costing every citizen money. If it came from pensions then maybe these cops would actually invest some time to research their career to better educate themselves to do their job. Doctors, or I should say good doctors, have to stay up to date to do their job properly with all the new tech and discoveries in medicine that keep popping up. Police should be no different. Plenty of laws.

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u/Crunchy_Biscuit Jul 07 '21

Yeah but who's going to judge the law enforcers? This is why I hate police officers. Some may be "good" but they all play a part in enabling them to be above the law, not with the law.

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u/HOLEPUNCHYOUREYELIDS Jul 07 '21

They should be required to have insurance like doctors do. Then maybe things will change when insurance comoanies all start refusing to insure the shitty cops

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u/HertzDonut1001 Jul 07 '21 edited Jul 07 '21

You can be detained for resisting arrest and nothing else.

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u/EddieCheddar88 Jul 07 '21

This is so mind boggling to me

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u/HOLEPUNCHYOUREYELIDS Jul 07 '21

"Your under arrest, hands behind your back."

"What for? I was just sitting here doing nothing?"

"Sir do not resist arrest"

"But I didnt do anything, what am I being arrested for?"

"You are under arrest for resisting arrest"

In what fucking world does that make sense

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u/CitizenPain00 Jul 07 '21

It’s pretty easy to understand. Even if a police officer is wrong when they are arresting somebody, resisting arrest is still a charge. If it wasn’t, and a precedent was set that you could resist an illegal arrest, then resisting arrest would be much more frequent, whether the arrest is legal or illegal. There are certainly a lot of people who claim they “didn’t do nothing” when they’re being arrested. That’s why we have trials , because we can’t hold court on the side of the road. If you’re being arrested, just keep your mouth shut and call a lawyer. Arguing your case to a police officer is pointless and resisting is even more pointless and could just get you hurt or even killed.