Police Terrorists Trained to Hate Protesters and Anarchists
Did you know that anarchists killed several police officers during the 1999 anti-WTO protests in Seattle?
No, you don't know that, because it never happened. But this is the kind of thing that many rank-and-file police believe who have been trained to police summit protests, including the ongoing anti-RNC protests happening this week in St. Paul, Minnesota. There were riots and lots of police violence in Seattle in 1999, but nobody was killed during those protests. Yet, police officers doing anti-protest policing in many American cities have been told this lie about anarchists.
This is probably not the only lie about protesters and anarchists that are indoctrinated into the police. Those who attend protests and those who have been arrested can attest to hearing incredible anti-protester beliefs coming out of the mouths of the police. Numerous online message boards have seen comments about protesters that come from police officers.
Police doing protest duty at summit protests usually get anti-protester training in the months and weeks before the event. They go through briefings about protesters, so we have to assume that these anti-protester myths and stereotypes are a constant part of police training. And with the heavy involvement of the FBI, Secret Service and Homeland Security in the policing of summit and convention protests, we also have to assume that protesters are being labeled as “terrorists.”
It's widely known that militaries throughout history have had to use different kinds of techniques to get soldiers to kill people. Most humans are against themselves being involved personally in killing or hurting people. New soldiers have to go through training that breaks down their moral qualms about killing. These techniques usually involve dehumanizing an enemy. Soldiers are indoctrinated, and also terrorized, into killing what is supposed to be a faceless enemy. Yet, despite all of this training, wars always include soldiers who refuse to kill people.
The same process is at work in American police departments (and most police departments around the world). Police are trained in various techniques to bully, harass, intimidate and be violent against people. If you are poor and brown-skinned in the United States, you bear the brunt of this police violence on a daily basis. The police brutality that we've seen in Denver and St. Paul this week is the result of ongoing indoctrination of the police against protesters, especially any protesters of the left-wing stripe. Local police departments have been militarized to deal with protesters, with much of this militarization happening during the Clinton administration. After 9/11, local police were further turned into anti-terrorist organizations, with the effect that they see their work as fighting terrorists. Local police are also bringing home the terror tactics that the U.S. has been using in dozens of countries around the world for the past century.
The war on terror has escalated into an increased war on the “rabble” of America, most significantly protesters and anarchists. This doesn't surprise us, because the U.S. government has always been at war with dissidents of many kinds.
We do not have any hope that the police will change their attitudes or their ways. The purpose of the police is to act as the violent arm of capital and the state. The only way for the people to stop the police is to stand up to them, abolish the police and build a different society which needs no police.
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Police Terrorists
I wonder if the police would be so violent had not the Bush regime supplied the city with many thousands of dollars worth of arms for the purpose of Homeland Security!!! Secure....right
Police Terrorists
I was reading an article the yesterday and apparently it is $50 million the federal government gave to the St. Paul police. They state they only needed $34 million of it, so the rest went into buying arms and who knows what else. The article was posted on CNN yesterday night.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/02/rnc.security/index.html?iref=news...
Good luck to everyone, it is wonderful seeing people standing up against the hegemonic fascist theocracy. My thoughts go out to all those jailed for exercising their right to assemble.
To Assemble
and break stuff, assault cops and civilians, stop traffic...these are rights aren't they? Thank God you're not in China, where you'd likely be put to death.
Since we are not in China
Since we are not in China you remark is completely irrelevant. To make change you must fight with what you have. It takes violence to make change against violence. The cops are afraid. When cops start peacefully asking protesters to disburse, they will peacefully abide. Being beaten& arrested for being peaceful only deserves violent repercussions.
Just more Ignorance On Display
These juvenile punks wouldn't make a pimple on an anarchist's ass. That is it in a nutshell.
My worst nightmare
We are seeing the results of the Homegrown Terrorism Act in play. The US must look like Gestapo nation to our friends in peaceful countries like Canada, New Zealand and Europe where they still respect some human rights.
For any Obama fans reading this, BO sits on the Homegrown Terrorism Commitee and supports it. Do not expect anything different from him.
Police often double as Homeland Security; that's how they can get away with spying, racial profiling, finding people to fill the jails that must be filled in order to make a profit.
What are our rights? I don't know, but I do know that there is a big difference between misinformation and lies - if something is a lie, please say so.
Finally, thanks and blessings to all of you brave folks in jails, on the front lines, and especially whose future may change from standing up - you stand up for all of us chickens who stayed home!
Hippie Protestor=spoiled,
Hippie Protestor=spoiled, lazy, big mouth, chip on shoulder, middle class, self indulgent, self important, gushy, unrealistic, unexperienced, rabble rousing, disorganised, psychologically fucked, aggressive, frustrated ass hole.
You have a preconcieved idea that world is run by fascist state sponsored killing machines that want to stamp all over your individual freedoms.
What that really means is you have never managed to get over rebelling against your parents, are fearful of taking responsibility for your life and hence fight authority externally, retreat into a an extended childhood where you don't have to engage in real actions that have real effects, project your inner demons onto the scary uncontrollable world events and generally fail to take control of your life, do anything productive and have a real stake in the economy and society, which in turn means you never experience most of the human emotions in any real, anchored kind of way and are therefore incapable of realising how fatuous you really are.
It may surprise you that soldiers actually like each other, even the ones they have to kill and would probably get on with each other. If loosers like you got responsible jobs, proper educations and found real channels like politics for example in which to make a difference, soldiers might not have to kill other soldiers. But hey, even when they're killing them they have one thing in common, they all hate ass hole hippy protestors. However that would mean tackling some big life issues not least of which is hard work, dedication, social awareness and discipline and organisation.
It would be more honest of hippies to simply say " hey, we don;t like violence so we're not going to be part of it" and get on with raising their pet chickens. "We appreciate that running the world and keeping the peace which allows us to express our pointless whiney opinions is really a hands on, dirty, unpleasant kind of job and are glad there are real men and women willing to do it on their and our behalf. So that being said we'll respect them for having the kind of guts we don't and make them a nice pumpkin pie for when they finish work."
And incidentally why is they never protest against terrorists but only against state responses to terror? Here's a headline for you:
"Israel lets fuckwit terrorists murder their citizens and does nothing."
Yo may not get this but these terrorists also hate hippies and probably want you dead. Though they love you just now because you're fighting their war for them. Genius. Hippie= terrorist support network. How ironic that if the terrorist had their way they'd kill you once they'd finished with the goverments they are fighting.
oh and by the way EVERYBODY
oh and by the way EVERYBODY hates anarchists because they are fucking assholes, especially genuine citizens who want to protest and end up having their peaceful demonstration hijacked by fuckwits who are simply football hooligans with less money, personal hygiene and intelligence.
they go looking for a fight with the police and to break the law. When the police enforce the law which is what democratically elected governments pay them to do so a few assholes don't fuck things up for everyone, they clamour about police brutality which is what they really wanted to do in the first place. they just love it when other people define them as victims reinforcing their feeling of rejection from society ( because they are rejected because they act like ass holes and generally make themselves as unacceptable and unappealing as possible). How sad. They must have real issues with their families and their self esteem, I actually genuinely pity them. But when their behavior escalates to the point of view of violence and trouble making my pity ends and they must be dealt with as criminal scum.
Peaceful
Which protest are you attending or watching? Law enforcement has always and continually asked people to peacefully disperse. This is recorded on video and audio, check your local media and you'll find that to be true. The protestors REFUSE to leave peacefully and that puts the ball in thier court. The protestors create the situation for law enforcement to use methods to make them disperse as they continue to violate the law. Once again your ignorant disinformation does a disservice for your incredibly stupid cause. Grow up, read a book and for God's sake, bathe and brush your teeth once a decade... PLEASE.....
Pathetic
The welcoming pansies (oops) committee/anarchists are pathetic losers. Police were NEVER told that officers were killed in Seattle (Unless they died laughing at the simplistic and ineffective way they protested). This is misinformation presented to protestors to help them "justify" what they intend to do. The Police were trained to control crowds and react to the violent acts by the anarchists. Obviously they were trained well as they have won every confrontation between themselves and the protestors. You may "take" the streets for a very short period of time, but Police ALWAYS prevail and restore order and calm. Some of the most offensive weapons the protestors have is the lack of hygiene. The lack of soap and water, toothpaste and razors for the women is incredible. How in the world they procreate has got to the one of the worlds greatest mysteries. I've walked by some of the protestors in downtown and I can only equate most of them to smelling far worse than some badly spoiled hamburger meat. It's nauseating, but it seems they enjoy it. When you add the sub par I.Q of most of them, you have a dangerous combination. They run and hide behind masks (Of course they'll claim police wear masks but remember, they have names, badge numbers etc displayed. The police are hardly annonymous) Protestors on the other hand whine and cry like the little b*tches they are when police try and take pictures of them. They won't talk to media to tell them what/why they are protesting (perhaps they don't even know) or more likely, they are simply "along for the ride" to cause havoc and distruction.
Please, if you don't like it here, if you don't like the government that affords you the opportunity to behave the way you are, why not move to Bejing and live there. They certainly have a better, more open way of life for you to express yourselves. Or perhaps you could just go f*uck yourselves. You're all worthless!!
Joke
Your comments are a joke. The police do not have their badge numbers on display nor will they offer that information even when questioned. The reason they have this funding is because they do fear this movement. The reason they are arresting people and asking questions later is out of fear. Fear that the people they work so hard to oppress are going to rise against them. They have the guns but we have the numbers..... I urge you to check out the video on democracynow.org to see how the police you hold so high are treating innocent people.
Innocent?
Innocent people don't cause felony damage to property, discuss kidnapping delegates and carry handguns to "peacefully" protest. Your ignorance is astounding. Look at the uniforms police wear, badge numbers are present and if they were in riot gear the numbers were displayed on the helmets. Once again you're stupidity is astounding. Not surprising, but astounding. Again, you hide your identities and run away when confronted by authority. Pu**ies and fu*king worthless, whiny bit*hes!!!
1. protesters don't need
1. protesters don't need lies to justify their cause; there are enough injustices committed by our government to justify a thousand protests.
2. violent acts like falling off your bike : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNc9ImWpNT0
holding out a flower : http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2008/09/01/pepper.mpg
or, doing investigative journalism : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYjyvkR0bGQ
3. protesters wear masks for two reasons : to avoid inhaling chemical irritants and to protect their identities.
4. Name calling, really?
I think we saw the answer to
I think we saw the answer to that when one uniformed cop, with no protective gear except a can of mace waded into 100's to go after one guy. They don't need protective gear to take on you pussy anarchists. They already know you're afraid of them.
where are the moltovs? This
where are the moltovs? This is why non-violence doesn't work.
Here
MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 3 DOJ-RNCC-charge
MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A 23-year-old Michigan man was charged last week in federal court for illegally possessing Molotov cocktails, which he allegedly intended to use at the Republican National Convention.
Matthew Bradley DePalma, Flint, Mich., was charged Aug. 30 with one count of possession of firearms that were not registered to him in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record. DePalma made his initial appearance yesterday, and his complaint was unsealed today. His preliminary hearing is scheduled for 1 p.m. Friday in Minneapolis.
According to the criminal complaint, DePalma knowingly and intentionally possessed Molotov cocktails from Aug. 22 through Aug. 28.
"The FBI, in close cooperation with our law enforcement and government partners, is working diligently to identify, investigate and respond to threats directed at the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area during the Republican National Convention," said Ralph S. Boelter, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Minneapolis Office. "Any criminal activities aimed at disrupting the convention or acts to harm persons or properties in violation of federal law will be thoroughly investigated and prosecuted, as appropriate."
DePalma was arrested without incident Aug. 30 at approximately 6:15 a.m. by agents of the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force at a residence in south Minneapolis.
According to a FBI affidavit, DePalma became known to the FBI in July 2008, when DePalma attended the CrimeThinc Convergence near Waldo, Wisc. During this event, DePalma allegedly stated his intention to travel to Minnesota to attend the RNC, and also expressed his desire to "make some bombs" and "blow up" things during the RNC.
The affidavit states that DePalma discussed with a FBI source his desire to make Molotov cocktails, describing in detail the use of ingredients that would make the flammable liquid more viscous so that it would stick to a target and burn longer and hotter than an ordinary gasoline-based Molotov cocktail.
The affidavit states that DePalma went to the Hennepin County Library on Aug. 18 and spent 90 minutes researching recipes for explosive devices. DePalma produced a handwritten list of items he would need to construct "special" Molotov cocktails that would stick to people and other targets.
DePalma's conversations, recorded on Aug. 20, described a plan to place a bomb near the Xcel Center during the RNC in an effort to disrupt the convention. The plan involved entering the tunnels near the center and using either Molotov cocktails or a chemical bomb to destroy electrical cables and cause a power outage. DePalma, the affidavit states, also described a related plan to use napalm-filled Molotov cocktails on the streets against police officers stating, "I will light one of those pigs on fire."
The affidavit states that DePalma obtained supplies for making Molotov cocktails on Aug. 21-22.
On Aug. 22, DePalma allegedly manufactured two jugs of a homemade napalm-like substance for use in Molotov cocktails. He created a flammable gelatin, and described to another the proper technique for throwing a Molotov cocktail to obtain the best explosion. DePalma continued to discuss his desire to make a bomb for use at the Xcel Center on either the convention's first day (Sept. 1) or last day (Sept. 4).
According to the affidavit, DePalma stated that if he could bomb the center on Sept. 1 they might call off the convention. He added that a "power outage would say a lot" and that it was his "main purpose." DePalma also said that he would like to bomb the Xcel Energy Center on Sept. 4 so that the convention would "end with a bang."
DePalma was observed traveling to a remote location in Rosemount for the purpose of assembling and testing Molotov cocktails. On Aug. 25, DePalma went to a remote location in Roseville for the purpose of experimenting with chemicals for a chemical bomb.
The affidavit states that DePalma manufactured three additional Molotov cocktails in a Minneapolis apartment on Aug. 28, where he was arrested. The affidavit states that DePalma possessed a total of five Molotov cocktails between Aug. 22-28, which were not registered to him in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record, as required by law.
If convicted, DePalma faces a potential maximum penalty of 10 years imprisonment. All sentences are determined by a federal district court judge. This case is the result of an investigation by the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, which includes the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney W. Anders Folk.
SOURCE U.S. Department of Justice
Was that the cop who got
Was that the cop who got knocked on his ass? Yeah, we're real scared.
Oh wait, no, they are. The events of the last week pretty much confirm that.
Afraid
Police afriad? Who runs from who a**hole? You all run like little bit*hes when they come for you. Pu**ies!!!
obviously written by a cop.
obviously written by a cop. Fear propagates violence on the scale we saw in mps this week. not boredom or corruption, but fear. protesters retreat from police because police use violence and weapons when words and ideas are the weapons of the protestors. only an idiot physically faces down an obviously superior armorment in a violent clash that can be avoided. cops use that violence and those weapons though, because they are SCARED!!!! TERRIFIED would be a better word. they are scared that they might have to accept someone elses legal actions that make them uncomfortable. FEAR breads violence. and Cops in MPS showed plenty of FEAR and HATE. Cops are people, meaning that they are criminals, and good people. I watched the videos of them beating women who were standing still with arms in the air, surrendering. i call that violent and criminal. those kinds of actions are bread from fear and violent training. Cops are criminals too, so let's not judge them too harshly, every monkey has it's weakness. The police have the weakness of fear and hate. It will not serve them well.
I didn't know
That's quite a piece of investigative journalism there. I didn't know that police have been told that people were killed and that many of them mistakenly believe that. How did you find that out? What are your sources on that. I'm sure you have sources for such an extreme claim. Oh, that's right, it's the message boards of protesters. Nothing outlandish ever comes out of those. It makes sense, since they have briefings, we have to ASSUME that they are being told these things. Nice try. Actually not even nice try. It's terrible.
From a comment on the
From a comment on the infoshop article:
"sorry I haven't time to provide better citations right now. General sources are the DC Corporation Council Report and the Miami Civilian Investigative Panel report, and for general Seattle myth busting, the RAND corporation book chapter 7 (on line in PDF form) entitled 'Netwar in the Emerald City'"
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police training in St. Paul
As a resident of Seattle who participated in the anti-WTO mass demonstrations here in 1999 with the teachers' union, I can readily believe that police training would include deliberate misinformation. Despite efforts by the organizers to coordinate with the police here, a police riot ensued over multiple days: I witnessed near my college police shooting off tear gas in the neighborhood at night when there were no protesters at all.
There is a great civic price to pay when city officials decide to host an event such as the RNC, including the military take over of police functions and wasting court resources. Our community has yet to recover from the mistrust engendered during the WTO conference, not the least of which surrounds the Port of Seattle which sponsored it. The treatment of journalists in St. Paul shows a new strategy on the part of the militarized police, but I am sure there will be others.
Cops = 1 Protesters = 0e
The cops keep winning and sticking you in jail since you play by their rules. . . the ironic thing is the cops don't even play by their rules. . .they just hope you are stupid enough to play by their rules. . . Do the Visitors go to the Home team and ask them what defense/offense they should play? Clearly that is what you have been doing. That is why the score will be Cops = 1 Protesters = 0. . . . at the finish of the game.
Police Harassment - How To Deal With The Situation
This may sound crazy to those who have no idea how the law works, but it works. I have filed numerous complaints against judges in this state. In fact my last complaint was against a Supreme Court Justice. A judge is responsible for maintaining the peace and sanctity (MS 484.07 annotated) of the day. Which means that they are not allowed to let the cops harass people. If they tolerate that behavior you have a duty to report them. I made the front page of the March 14, 2007 edition of the Willmar paper arresting a judge. They have regretted that headline ever since as I have repeatedly used it to my advantage.
A judge is a lawyer first so you need to file your complaint with the Board on Judicial Standards and the Lawyer's Professional Responsibility Board. Below are some links to fliers you can print out. Follow the instructions and the cops will leave you alone.
WHAT TO DO IF STOPPED BY A COP:
1. Immediately Demand To See A Judge (Courts Are Presumed To Be
Open 24/7 - 365 Days/Per Year.) Why Argue Complex Legal Issues
With Someone With Average Intelligence?
2. If Refused, Tell The Cop: "Thank You, You Have Just Earned Your
Judges A Complaint With The Board Of Judicial Standards. A Complaint Will Be Filed As Soon As I Am Released.”
3. Ignore Any And All Threats And Attempts At Intimidations.
4. Do Not Even Give Your Name. Anything You Say Or Write, Even Your
Name Can Be Used Against You In Court Or As A Psychological Weapon
Against You. Give Your Name Only To The Judge.
5. On Every Piece Of Paper Presented To You Write: “Void: Signed
Under Threat, Duress, and Coercion” Sign It With Your First And Last
Name But Replace Your Middle Name With “Duress.”
6. Refuse A Lawyer.
7. Tell The Judge "I Am Arresting You For Obstruction Of Justice." Ignore Any And All Threats And Attempts At Intimidations From The Judge. Ignore Any Court "Rulings" As They Are Invalid. Good Job!
Board on Judicial Standards
2025 Centre Pointe Blvd., Suite 180
Mendota Heights, MN 55120
Lawyer's Professional Responsibility Board
1500 Landmark Towers
345 St. Peter St.
St. Paul, MN 55102
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What will a petition accomplish? Answer: Nothing. If you are going sign something file a complaint against the local judges for failing to maintain the peace and quietude in Minneapolis. This a complaint in which could cause the judge to lose their reputation, job, advancement, or even a higher office. A complaint must be answered by law. There is no legal obligation to answer a petition.
BEWARE OF THE COP DISINFORMATION SQUADS who call everyone a “TROLL” and Say good ideas are "bad" ideas. . .
COPS ARE HYPOCRITES since they claim to represent the law but instead are nothing but paid low intelligent incompetent thugs who refuse to obey the law. And they work for even more crooked judges and lawyers. Who else would want low intelligent incompetent thugs wearing a badge and gun? And then they have the gall to complain when people file a complaint about their criminal activity.
Irrelevant DISINFORMATION and SPAM Above
There are three levels of police encounter:
Casual Conversation: Police want to have a friendly conversation with you. No proof of any crime is needed; they are likely fishing for data that could lead to a future arrest. Do not provide any information to the police, even if they seem very nice. Remember, Police ask no innocent questions. Instead, ask politely if you are free to go; if yes, calmly leave the encounter.
Detention: The police can detain you if a reasonable suspicion exists that you were involved in a crime. They must tell you why you are detained and and articulate the suspected crime. Ask if you are detained and why, and remember the answer. An unreasonable detention can help win your case. If detained, answer no questions and politely state that you choose to remain silent and want to consult a lawyer before being questioned.
Arrest: If under arrest, immediately tell police "I choose to remain silent and want to see my lawyer." Remain silent; do not fall prey to police efforts to convince you to talk.
Do not relay on the Miranda Warnings to benefit your case. Police only have to read your rights if you are under arrest and they want to question you. They are trained to get you talking. If this works, stop talking immediately and repeat the magic words.
Do not consent to a search. Be polite but firm about your rights with police during search encounters. If police knock on your door, step outside and close the door to talk. If in your car, follow police instructions to either stay seated or exit the car. If the cops say "Do you mind if I look in your purse, bag, home, or car?" say, "I do not consent to a search." If the cops say "Why not? Are you hiding something?" say, "I do not consent to a search."
The police may still search you, with or without a warrant, but this will preserve your right to contest the case. Never physically resist the police. If they continue despite your statement, stand aside and say the magic words: "I choose to remain silent and want to see my lawyer." Many cases are thrown out due to bad search warrants and illegal warrant-less searches.
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A note to the idiot who's putting these "judge complaint" posts up: I'm going to post this message in reply to your message - just once per main posting. Unfortunately, Bible verses aren't admissible in court and won't help you. Neither will appeals to God or Jehovah.
Loser. Disinformation Agent. Troll. Tell us who you are and cite some case names, case numbers, and real case law from a Minnesota court binding on the judges who will be hearing the cases (or US Supreme Court case law) - or fuck off and take your phony Freeman bullshit with you. After 5 days, you've never come up with any of the above - no case law, none of your own cases, no name, no nothing.
Strategizing For A Living Revolution
"Since the top power-holders depend on the compliance of those beneath them to stay on top, Otpur's strategy was to weaken the compliance and finally to break it. First, Otpur needed to ask: which are the pillars of support needed by the dictatorship? Then: what are the tactics that will weaken those pillars?
Activists in other countries can follow this methodology to begin to create their strategy.
Here's just one example of how it worked in Serbia. One pillar of support for Milosevic was his police. Otpur systematically undermined that pillar. The young activists knew that fighting the police would strengthen police loyalty to Milosevic (and also support the mass media claim that the young people were hoodlums and terrorists). So they trained themselves to make nonviolent responses to police violence during protests. One of the slogans they learned during their trainings was: “It only hurts if you're scared.” They took photos of their wounded. They enlarged the photos, put them on signs, and carried the signs in front of the houses of the police who hurt them. They talked to the cop's neighbors about it, took the signs to the schools of the police officers' children and talked with the children about it. After a year of this, police were plainly reluctant to beat Otpur activists even when ordered to do so, because they didn't want the negative reactions of their family, friends, neighbors.
The young people joked with the plainclothes police assigned to infiltrate them and reminded the cops that everyone would get their chance to act for democracy. Through the assertive outreach of the activists, relationships were built with the police, even into the higher ranks. When the movement ripened into a full-fledged insurgency in Belgrade, many police were sent out of the city by their commanders while other police simply watched the crowds take over the Parliament building. "
"Strategizing For A Living Revolution," George Lakey
Your Right of Defense Against Unlawful Arrest
“Citizens may resist unlawful arrest to the point of taking an arresting officer's life if necessary.” Plummer v. State, 136 Ind. 306. This premise was upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States in the case: John Bad Elk v. U.S., 177 U.S. 529. The Court stated: “Where the officer is killed in the course of the disorder which naturally accompanies an attempted arrest that is resisted, the law looks with very different eyes upon the transaction, when the officer had the right to make the arrest, from what it does if the officer had no right. What may be murder in the first case might be nothing more than manslaughter in the other, or the facts might show that no offense had been committed.”
“An arrest made with a defective warrant, or one issued without affidavit, or one that fails to allege a crime is within jurisdiction, and one who is being arrested, may resist arrest and break away. lf the arresting officer is killed by one who is so resisting, the killing will be no more than an involuntary manslaughter.” Housh v. People, 75 111. 491; reaffirmed and quoted in State v. Leach, 7 Conn. 452; State v. Gleason, 32 Kan. 245; Ballard v. State, 43 Ohio 349; State v Rousseau, 241 P. 2d 447; State v. Spaulding, 34 Minn. 3621.
“When a person, being without fault, is in a place where he has a right to be, is violently assaulted, he may, without retreating, repel by force, and if, in the reasonable exercise of his right of self defense, his assailant is killed, he is justified.” Runyan v. State, 57 Ind. 80; Miller v. State, 74 Ind. 1.
“These principles apply as well to an officer attempting to make an arrest, who abuses his authority and transcends the bounds thereof by the use of unnecessary force and violence, as they do to a private individual who unlawfully uses such force and violence.” Jones v. State, 26 Tex. App. I; Beaverts v. State, 4 Tex. App. 1 75; Skidmore v. State, 43 Tex. 93, 903.
“An illegal arrest is an assault and battery. The person so attempted to be restrained of his liberty has the same right to use force in defending himself as he would in repelling any other assault and battery.” (State v. Robinson, 145 ME. 77, 72 ATL. 260).
“Each person has the right to resist an unlawful arrest. In such a case, the person attempting the arrest stands in the position of a wrongdoer and may be resisted by the use of force, as in self- defense.” (State v. Mobley, 240 N.C. 476, 83 S.E. 2d 100).
“One may come to the aid of another being unlawfully arrested, just as he may where one is being assaulted, molested, raped or kidnapped. Thus it is not an offense to liberate one from the unlawful custody of an officer, even though he may have submitted to such custody, without resistance.” (Adams v. State, 121 Ga. 16, 48 S.E. 910).
“Story affirmed the right of self-defense by persons held illegally. In his own writings, he had admitted that ‘a situation could arise in which the checks-and-balances principle ceased to work and the various branches of government concurred in a gross usurpation.’ There would be no usual remedy by changing the law or passing an amendment to the Constitution, should the oppressed party be a minority. Story concluded, ‘If there be any remedy at all ... it is a remedy never provided for by human institutions.’ That was the ‘ultimate right of all human beings in extreme cases to resist oppression, and to apply force against ruinous injustice.’” (From Mutiny on the Amistad by Howard Jones, Oxford University Press, 1987, an account of the reading of the decision in the case by Justice Joseph Story of the Supreme Court.
As for grounds for arrest: “The carrying of arms in a quiet, peaceable, and orderly manner, concealed on or about the person, is not a breach of the peace. Nor does such an act of itself, lead to a breach of the peace.” (Wharton’s Criminal and Civil Procedure, 12th Ed., Vol.2: Judy v. Lashley, 5 W. Va. 628, 41 S.E. 197)
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