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

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [September 14, 2014, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kissing-your-husband-while-black-not-if-the-lapd-can-help-it/698492 "2014-09-14T19:21:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kissing-your-husband-while-black-not-if-the-lapd-can-help-it/698492/1432 "2014-10-03T13:11:13Z")

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

> [@Should the citizenry have the right to forcibly resist an illegal arrest?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-citizenry-have-the-right-to-forcibly-resist-an-illegal-arrest/141594/1):
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> Somewhat motivated by the individual gun rights thread [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=148475&), I’m curious to know what people feel about this topic.
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> At common law, an individual had the right to resist, with physical or even deadly force, an illegal arrest.
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> 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.

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