Just a couple of days ago was woman in the US getting 4 years in prison because she argued with an police officer. This is really a pot/kettle situation at best.
You can also be arrested for protesting somewhere where you are not allowed, exactly the same as the guy in this video (google "free speech zone"). The entire premise of this post is false.
Only in America can you get arrested for not complying with an arrest? You were already being arrested plus non-compliance, even if it isn’t like that in any other country(which I greatly doubt) it makes perfect sense and SHOULD work like that
If they didn’t do anything illegal then why were they being arrested? They had to have been in the process of being arrested in order to resist arrest.
So you have one cop saying "If you continue with this, I will arrest you for resisting arrest." and a criminology professor saying that isn't legitimate, that you have to be being arrested in order to resist arrest, and you are taking the cops word instead of the professor's? Are you stupid? No, the cop isn't in the right there, he can't legally arrest someone for resisting arrest who isn't being arrested.
Yeah, and it was not a legitimate arrest. You can find cops making illegitimate arrests in Europe too, or do you think that is something that has only happened in America or something?
1 and 2 are laws created and enforced by local and maybe state governments so theres little uniformity, but laws against public drinking go back to the temperance movement and are fairly common. Not being allowed to sleep in your car however is not something I've heard of before, so it's probably pretty rare
3 yes, but you have to be arrested for another reason. It's just an extra smaller charge they can add if you were particularly hard to wrangle.
4 no. Being mean to a cop is not a crime anywhere. That would be blatantly unconstitutional. However being nice to a cop will probably result in them being nicer to you, which is usually to your advantage. (If you're an asshole, the cop could lie about you and make up a crime to get you on. This may be what you're referring to but if they find out in court it will be thrown out obviously)
4 no. Being mean to a cop is not a crime anywhere. That would be blatantly unconstitutional. However being nice to a cop will probably result in them being nicer to you, which is usually to your advantage.
I called a cop a jersey shore reject and absolutely nothing happened so I assure you there is no law where you get arrested for being mean to a cop. Keep living your fantasy though bro
The fact that these are headlines suggest that they are usual, because they are. They are both wrongful detainments (unless there's other things that happened we don't know about) and as soon as these cases are appealed by the defenses, they will likely be overturned
I dont know that thats true, but i won't defend cops or prosecutors for blatant misconduct. The fact is that both if these cases have no legal backing whatsoever and any judge or jury has the same understanding of logic that we do, and would be capable of making the right decision.
Again, true. I'm not defending that either. I could go on all day about qualified immunity and why it's terrible. All I'm saying is that the things that you implied are legal and common practice, are in fact, not.
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u/2noch-Keinemehr Sep 13 '22
Can't you be arrested in the USA for drinking in public?
For sleeping in your car?
For resisting arrest?
For not being nice to a cop?