A lot of ego around those incidents of resisting arrests and bad outcomes IMO.
That is actually ‘ID’ on display, not the ‘ego’, as defined by Freud. The id is the unorganized part of the personality structure that contains a human’s basic, instinctual drives. Id is the only component of personality that is present from birth. It is the source of our bodily needs, wants, desires, and impulses, particularly our sexual and aggressive drives.
Since the paternal ‘father figure’ is absent in most of these young peoples’ lives, the ‘super-ego’ was never properly developed to suppress the id.................