I’m judging this on its own merits, not on general prejudices against cops or armed forces.
Until I see more info I’ll generally side with the cops here.
On FR I challenge to find a thread where anyone rags on military. Meanwhile dog threads, e.g., are replete with anti-cop rantings. Although whenever it goes their way - Zimmerman/Trayvon event, riots by OWS or the like - there is silence as to whether the cops were bad or not.
Well I tend to agree with you on this specific event.
However, your OWS example is tenuous at best.... disturbing the peace and damage to private property are very real crimes whose establishment as a break of the law clearly do not violate the Constitution.
One point I also agree with you on, although you didn’t make it explicitly, is resisting arrest is resisting arrest, even if you are innocent, which is a crime itself.
If you are innocent you will have your day in court (at least for now).
The only time I was arrested was on a false DUI charge that was quickly dropped. The officer had no roadside test available, gave me the ridiculous manual dance test- which I “failed” as they are designed to do, took me in , and once in I got in abot 5 minutes later (We were close the station) I blew a .00 on the breathalyzer since I had not been drinking- LOL; as I tried in vein to explain to the arresting officer. I was *relatively* promptly released- though I never did get that apology.