Is it not time we all had a reality check in this thread? Half of you post like you are some sort of glorious freedom fighter in a tyrannical police state.
If you are being wrongfully arrested by the police you'd need to be completely mad to attempt to resist arrest. What do you think it will acheive? Do you actually think that if you spend a good 10 minutes fighting them they'll turn round and say 'Perhaps he didnt do anything, let him go?'
Of course not. All you'll do is add a legitimate offence to the one you claim you are innocent of, with a bunch of witnesses.
The way our legal system works, and has worked since before all of us were born, is that police can arrest somebody on suspicion of commiting an offence.
Thats right - suspicion. Police are not prosecutors or juries. They arrest people they SUSPECT of crime, and then our legal process judges them either innocent or guilty. Thats how it works. Therefore fighting the police on the street because you did nothing wrong isnt standing up for your freedoms, it's completely bone headed.
What would you hope to acheive by such action?
The ONLY way to deal with being wrongfully arrested is to go peacefully and be reasonable. Starting a pavement brawl won't help your case.
Sadly however much you hate the bully with the badge our law often mandates that in some circumstances, we must do what they tell us. We might not like this, but thats what we have to do. Thats not bending over, thats not being a pussy, thats just what a rational member of society should do.
Your innocence can be fought for after this has taken place, and rightfully so.
Short of going to live in Somalia this is pretty much a fact of life rather than a UK thing.
I think the police in this country do a really tough job for really very little pay in the grand scheme of things. Society would fall apart without them and the vast majority of them deserve our respect not our contempt. There are bad apples everywhere you go - you cant judge an entire force on the behaviour (Or out of context behaviour) of a few. I really dont think I'll ever understand why it's perceived cool on this forum to be anti police and anti authority. Perhaps if more of us respected the police we'd all have less trouble with them. Even the most bone-headed of power hungry police officer isn't going to fire a tazer at you and beat you to the ground if you politely speak to him in a non-threatening way and comply with his wishes. No matter how much you wish it was otherwise, he has the power in the situation, not you or me.
Perhaps as CCTV does not show 'The full story' it should be inadmissible in a Court of Law?
