TYT: NYPD: Solution To Another Garner Death Is To Make Resisting Arrest A Felony

[WhoIsNumberNone]

"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

[Roy Rolling]

1. Yes!

Finally something that addresses the phenomenon of criminals not wanting to get arrested. Here's another idea: just make everything legal and there won't be criminals. Stupid, yes. But only slightly more stupid than encouraging criminals to not flee the police.

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

2. I could go along with this

if police officers wear cameras.

[immoderate]

3. It wouldn't make a difference, except better pictures.

--imm

[uponit7771]

5. They have immunity and a gun, it would not make a difference as along as the PAs

.. are tied to the officers

[99th_Monkey]

4. Brilliant .. that and more machine guns

http://reason.com/blog/2015/01/30/nypd-now-with-more-machine-guns
The NYPD really knows how to woo the NY citizenry.

Making 'resisting arrest' a felony only gives cops even more opportunity to
abuse their power, by felonizing everyone and anyone they want to .. at the
drop of a hat. Resisting arrest is one of the more bullshit charges that cops
pin on people they don't like the looks of, for whatever reason.

Perfect for a police state though; so I guess it fits after all.

[qucumbbruce]

9. Got to be kidding..

Yes, that is a HUGELY BAD suggestion but fits right in with the mentality of many police people these days. Everyone needs to be detained, at the least, no questions asked, whenever demanded, or else...

[ctsnowman]

6. Let's make it real

easy and add that any felony is an automatic death penalty to be carried out on the spot based on the officer's best judgement.

[Garion_55]

7. so if you know you are being unlawfully arrested

and you protest, you will get slapped with resisting arrest, you will go to court and the original charge will be thrown out but you will still be a felon because you resisted the unlawful arrest.

thats fucking awesome.

[SwissTony]

10. I'm old enough to have been around during the war in Vietnam

to which Australia sent troops. (I'm an Aussie). I took part in quite a few anti-war demos. I was never arrested, but lots of people I knew were. We could see the cops pointing out ("well known&quot individuals even when said people were 10 rows back in the crowd and couldn't possibly have been committing any "crime" that the rest of us weren't also committing. But they would be arrested, often quite violently. Almost invariably, the original charge would disappear and they would be taken to court and charged with resisting arrest. There are people who have lengthy criminal records whose only crime was resisting arrest. I'm willing to bet the situation was/is the same in the US and elsewhere.

[A Simple Game]

8. Felony resisting arrest? Sounds like a good idea... if

we also make false arrest a felony, and make police subject to the same laws we are.

In other words the cop that killed the man by using a choke hold does not get administrative leave, he gets a jail cell, probably loses his job because he is in jail, and a trial, not a review board, just like I would.

And while we are at it let's find a way to make him forfeit his car and house... just because.

Does anyone know why they were arresting the man for what should be a citation offense? I didn't see anyone writing him a ticket nor him refusing to take one. At least five cops for what was supposed to be one man selling untaxed cigarettes? How cost effective is that?