So that’s the standard now? Don’t do anything wrong or cops will beat you to death or leave you permanently disabled? Why have a court system at all, just let cops execute the sentence on the spot.
Because they never make a mistake or abuse their power.
Check this out:
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/Berkeley-Man-Near-Death-at-the-hands-of-CHP-206494311.html
Now more than three years after being almost beaten to death, this guy’s case is finally being settled out of court for an undisclosed amount of money with none of the CHP officers being punished. Once again, the government sweeps the problem under the rug and pays off the defendant!
If the police act this way does it not in some measure justify trying to escape?
But let's clarify two things.
First, a "police state" is when normally legal actions - like deciding not to participate in a political rally, or publishing statements critical of the government, or gathering for worship - are arbitrarily considered crimes, and one can be arrested for them and held without bond or hearing.
Smashing your car into someone else's car and then running away from the police are not normally legal activities that have been arbitrarily criminalized.
Second, once you run from the cops they are not going to trust you to all of a sudden voluntarily remain immobile.
They are going to render you immobile.
Ever since there have been cops, criminals have known that if they are going to run from the cops they had better get away, because if they don't they are going to get it.
That's life, and that's the way it always has been.
Stanislav had a choice: realize he screwed up and call an attorney, or try to be an escape artist.
As they say, play stupid games - win stupid prizes.