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Originally Posted by MBates
This is a well written post by this officer but he makes one significant error:
False.
To be correct, you must add "lawfully in the execution of their duties" to the end of that sentence. You absolutely have the legal right to fight - and win - against police officers who are unlawfully arresting you or using excessive force against you.
Not that I recommend it. I really do not. Because even if you are in the right, you may well find yourself dead.
But this is a serious flaw in thinking if this is what they are teaching police. That no one has the right to physically fight them.
They have no more right than any other person to lay a hand on another individual unless lawfully placed with reasonable grounds.
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Police are not being taught that no one has the right to fight them. They are being trained to tell someone that prior to going hands on with someone they advise them they are under arrest and able to articulate the reasons for that arrest. Unless of course your life or someone else's is in immediate danger, then you deal with the threat immediately.