Contrary to common belief, there is no right to resist arrest. When the police decide to arrest you, right or wrong, you have to obey. Period. There's just no ambiguity or subtlety here. It's as clear as day and everyone should know this. If you want to argue the legitimacy of your arrest, your time to do that comes later.

With that principle in mind, if you hit a police officer, you are committing a serious crime that will very often result in jail time. Officers have every right to defend themselves. You might argue that the officer was not under any real threat, however, do you think she would have stopped swinging at him if he had done nothing? His job was to bring her into custody, she was preventing him from doing that, and he took measures that allowed him to fulfill his duty. If you don't want to be clocked by a cop, don't swing at a cop. If you don't want to get into that situation at all in the first place, then don't go out and get hammered. It's really that simple. I don't see how there's really any other legitimate side to this argument.

[Post edited by pienkows at 11/05/2017 9:27PM]