I remember the first time I learned that just asking a policeman not to arrest you is “resisting arrest”, I couldn’t believe it.
If the cop thinks your wrists arê thicker than he is accustomed to that is “resisting arrest without violence.” That charge is so he can take you in with essentially no charge- he just wants to arrest you. If a cop stops anyone anywhere at any time and the person asks what it is for that, too, is “resisting arrest without violence.” That charge will usually be dropped because juries raise eyebrows at it but it lets the cop have his way with you and bump up his record for apprehensions a bit. We used to get these things out on the beach a lot. I haven’t heard of any this year but summer is just beginning.