“Last week, at a New York state Senate hearing on protests against police brutality, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton asked lawmakers to raise the penalty for resisting arrest from a misdemeanor to a felony.
“We need to get around this idea that you can resist arrest,” he later told reporters. “It results in potential injuries to the officer, to the suspect. And we need to change that, and the way to change that is to start penalties for it.’” *
Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) and Ana Kasparian (http://www.twitter.com/AnaKasparian) break it down on The Young Turks.
*Read more here from http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2015/02/10/384990293/nypds-top-cop-wants-to-make-it-a-felony-to-resist-arrest
Comments
This is a load resisting arrest is one of those trumped up charges they charge you with just because. The tactics of police forces and the politicians that support them are becoming very gestapo like.
This a huge training issue. I have been policing for 32 years, these guys are operating at the level of a security guard. Hire smarter peoplr or train them better.