When it comes to law and order, it has to be admitted that in America, the police are absolutely armed to their gills, for they have immediate access to firearms of exceedingly impressive lethal power, as well as Tasers, pepper spray, batons, rubber bullets, handcuffs, and just about anything that a police department feels that it needs in order to effect law and order. So then, most citizens of this nation are quite aware that any interaction with a police officer is fraught with danger, especially when that citizen is involved in some sort of civil disobedience, or even when that citizen is just being about their own business but are in some way, form or manner, considered to be an annoyance to the police.
It is thus quite surprising to see, therefore, the sheer number of unarmed citizens who are subsequently arrested for such offenses as “resisting arrest,” “obstruction of justice,” and “assault of a police officer.” The truth of the matter is that all of these charges appear to be, oftentimes, trumped-up charges, of which the most galling of them all is the alleged assault upon a police officer. Indeed, unless somebody is clearly out of their mind, no sensible unprepared person is ever going to attempt a true assault of a police officer, because that officer has not only lethal force that can and will be used against the alleged assailant, but the person so being accused of assaulting a police officer, is typically completely unarmed, which would make their actions, if true, to be extremely imprudent and reckless.
All of the above would presuppose that when it comes to those that are involved in civil disobedience or are simply raising their voices, and enacting their 1st Amendment rights, are responded to by the police, far too often, with the most dubious charges, which thereupon permits the police to arrest these people so as to hopefully quell whatever disturbance is happening, though the more outrageous the police are in their actions, often serves to have the population respond in kind, which doesn’t help to calm the situation down, whatsoever.
The most unwarranted thing happening is that we know that these types of charges made against civilians that are in actuality not resisting arrest and are not assaulting officers of the law, end up typically being dropped a significant amount of the time, indicating that the purpose of pinning these charges on those people is to control the population, and to hell with any of their Constitutional rights.
This signifies that the world that we live in when it comes to citizen civil disobedience is a world in which might makes right, and those who stand in the way of that might will be removed forcefully or not, through whatever dubious charges the officers of the law feel is necessary to take care of the issue, because all that matters is that those that are the real actuators of that law and order, get what they want, come what may.