Lonestar_logic
Republic of Texas
- May 13, 2009
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You are orrect but there needs to be some probable cause for grabbing you around the neck which I believe is illegal anyway.I thought you had to be read your rights before you are arrested?Resist arrest and lay hands on an officer here, that's assault on a law enforcement officer. If the officer is in reasonable fear of his life or serious injury, lethal force is authorized effecting the arrest whether running away or not.
That happens after you're arrested.....as you know.![]()
What would the cop had gained by grabbing Brown by the neck? Obviously, when seated in his vehicle he is at a distinct disadvantage in a fight.
He would have known that he couldn't pull him in, and that by grabbing the neck of a 280+ man with one hand leaves you with virtually no leverage.
To make up your own mind, get in an SUV, and grab a big friend by the throat with one hand, and tell me what the possibility is of him breaking free from that grasp WITHOUT being pulled into the vehicle?
In that scenario, you have no leverage and you certainly do not have the power to hold on if your friend simply hits you in the hand.
And my last point, if Brown did get grabbed by the throat and managed to free himself, why not run then? It appeared, at the very least, that he became the attacker.
Mark
Now you gone and done it!! You introduced logic and reason into the equation and that will surely screw Assclapius' world up!