Why Black People ‘Resist Arrest’ - Medium
2020年6月17日 · This is why we resist. A 2017 paper by Carlos Berdejó of Loyola Law School finds significant racial disparities in plea deals: White defendants generally get better deals than their black...
How Police Abuse the Charge of Resisting Arrest
2020年5月29日 · Police officers often use the charge of “resisting arrest” to criminalize black people who try to defend themselves from brutal, punitive, and often illegal police actions. They also do so to justify the violence it takes to compel compliance—even if that violence results in …
Phoenix officers seen in bodycam video punching and tasing a deaf man …
22 小时之前 · Tyron McAlpin, 34, was initially charged with two counts of aggravated assault and one count of resisting arrest related to the incident. But all charges against him were dropped last week ...
Police stops of Black people often filled with fear, anxiety
2022年4月16日 · For a number of Black men and women, resisting arrest during encounters with police for minor traffic stops have been deadly. Experts say anxiety levels of the people stopped and even the...
What Are Cops Really Thinking When Routine Arrests Turn …
2020年6月26日 · Courts tend to rule in the favor of cops who say they had to resort to physical violence during an arrest. In several states a person can be charged with resisting arrest even if prosecutors say cops had no legal authority to detain the person in the first place.
San Diego Police traffic stop of Black man prompts investigation – …
2024年6月17日 · After searching his car, police gave him a ticket for resisting arrest. Hoskins says it cost him about a thousand dollars to get his car back from impound and replace the smashed window, which...
Phoenix police officers on leave amid probe into violent arrest of ...
2 天之前 · Two Phoenix police officers who were involved in the violent arrest of a deaf Black man with cerebral palsy ... McAlpin was initially charged with felony assault and resisting arrest following the ...
Bragg's Shift on Resisting Arrest Charges Would Affect Few Cases …
2022年1月20日 · In New York City, as a whole, resisting arrest was the top charge fewer than 250 times in 2020. And Mr. Bragg has said that any violence toward police officers will be charged as assault. The...
Violent arrest of a Black man with disabilities highlights issues …
1 天前 · Newly released bodycam footage shows Phoenix police violently arresting a man with disabilities. The department was already facing intervention for misconduct. Charges against the man were dropped. ... Christina, I understand that McAlpin was then charged with three felony counts - aggravated assault on officers and resisting arrest. But then ...
Michigan has some of the harshest penalties for resisting police
2021年11月21日 · The Free Press investigation found: Black men are nearly six times more likely to be charged with resisting and obstructing police under state law than white men; Black women are three and...