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I am moving here the two examples of police brutality that I originally posted as part of the parent problem.

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Augustin introduced the issue of whether resisting arrest is a valid crime in a follow-up post to the problem of police brutality. I wanted to start a separate conversation about this issue; perhaps we will eventually list this as a separate problem.

Here is what someone wrote in a youtube comment:

There is no such crime as "resisting arrest." This is a fictitious crime.
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Someone posted in the comments of the videos:

There is no such crime as "resisting arrest." This is a fictitious crime.
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"An illegal arrest is an assault and battery. The person so attempted to be restrained of his liberty has the same right to use force in defending himself as he would in repelling any other assault and battery." State v. Robinson, 145 ME. 77, 72 ATL. 260
"Citizens may resist unlawful arrest to the point of taking an arresting officer's life if necessary." Plummer v. State, 136 Ind. 306.