Kissing your husband while black? Not if the LAPD can help it.

[Bricker]

This discussion raises an interesting tangent, one which we’ve touched upon in prior years here:

@Bricker

Somewhat motivated by the individual gun rights thread here, I’m curious to know what people feel about this topic.

At common law, an individual had the right to resist, with physical or even deadly force, an illegal arrest.

Today, of course, resisting an arrest with force of your own is likely to put in in the hospital, or in a standoff on some isolated farm holding. One of the reasons for gun rights was so that citizens would theoretically have the power to curb government’s tyrannical excesses; in today’s world, should the law permit a citizen to resist an illegal arrest?

I posed that question twelve years ago.