Resistance is Futile: The Violent Cost of Challenging the American Police State

Canada Free Press ^ | 09/09/14 | John W. Whitehead

[Sean_Anthony]

This is a battlefield, a war zone—if you will—governed by martial law and disguised as a democracy

“Police are specialists in violence. They are armed, trained, and authorized to use force. With varying degrees of subtlety, this colors their every action. Like the possibility of arrest, the threat of violence is implicit in every police encounter. Violence, as well as the law, is what they represent.”—Kristian Williams, activist and author

If you don’t want to get probed, poked, pinched, tasered, tackled, searched, seized, stripped, manhandled, arrested, shot, or killed, don’t say, do or even suggest anything that even hints of noncompliance. This is the new “thin blue line” over which you must not cross in interactions with police if you want to walk away with your life and freedoms intact.

[Diogenesis]

Foreign illegals can behead Americans and come
back and blow up a city (Waltham, then Boston Atrocity).

Foreign illegals can rape and murder white Americans
and be released en bloc by Holder, with a laugh.

[Buffalo Head]

Thanks for the post.

[JRandomFreeper]

Cut their budgets and they are toothless wannabes.

/johnny

[Hugin]

Frankly, it doesn’t matter whether it’s a casual “show your ID” request on a boardwalk, a stop-and-frisk search on a city street, or a traffic stop for speeding or just to check your insurance: if you feel like you can’t walk away from a police encounter of your own volition—and more often than not you can’t, especially when you’re being confronted by someone armed to the hilt with all manner of militarized weaponry and gear—then for all intents and purposes, you’re under arrest from the moment a cop stops you.

OK, he lost me there. Obviously if a cop stops you to write a ticket for an infraction(speeding ticket) you can't just "walk away". That doesn't make you under arrest, it just means you have to stick around and take the ticket in lieu of being arrested and hauled before a judge. If you could walk away, arrest would be the only way to enforce traffic laws.

How about some common sense on both sides of the police militarization issue? A lot of people do stupid things in encounters with cops, and get themselves arrested for good reason. And a some cops have bad attitudes and abuse innocent people. But 99.9% of police/citizen interactions don't involve either; citizens cooperate, and police do their job properly.

[NonLinear]

Thanks!
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[hal ogen]

I’d say the 99.9% is a bit of a stretch.

[Alex Murphy]

John W. Whitehead PING

[Starstruck]

But 99.9% of police/citizen interactions don't involve either; citizens cooperate, and police do their job properly.

Interesting. 99.9%. I had 2 confrontational stops when I was a teenager. I was neither confrontational or charged with anything. Probably a good thing I wasn't black. I do admit that I couldn't afford the newest car.

[knarf]

Look up “arrest” ... you’ve been arrested ... you’re ‘under arrest’ ... it’s called English.

[ChildOfThe60s]

NYPD officers grabbed Huq, a lawyer with the New York City Public Advocate’s office, flipped her around, pressed her against a wall, handcuffed her, searched her purse, arrested her, and told her to “shut up” when she cried out for help, before detaining her for nine hours.

And she will still vote socialist Democrat in the next election........

[jmacusa]

From past personal experience I know that if a cop is questioning you that’s called ‘’being detained’’. When they put the cuffs on you that’s called ‘’being under arrest’’.

[ansel12]

One of my teen stops was to have the car searched, the back seat removed, everything that they could dismantle and take apart laid in the street, including from the trunk area, and then when they were finished, they drove off, leaving me in the dark with all kinds of work to do before I could drive off.

I have all kinds of teen cop stories, including being awakened while asleep in bed, in my apartment (with the cop shaking me), and taken to jail for disturbing the peace.

[ought-six]

If you are stopped and questioned you are not under arrest, but you are detained. You are arrested when they take you into custody (and that does not mean they necessarily have to take you away; but it does mean you are no longer just detained, but in addition you can’t leave).

[Hugin]

There’s a difference between being detained and being arrested. Just because you have been detained while a cop gives you a ticket or questions you doesn’t mean you have been arrested. You don’t have an arrest on your record, for one thing.