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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. |
Citizens may resist unlawful arrest to the point of taking an arresting officer’s life if necessary.
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A woman says that she warned police she was filming a fatal encounter between six of them and another man. She says police took her phone before she could post the video to the Web. There are now suggestions the footage was deleted.This is in regards to the California father who was beat to death by six cops as he begged for his life.
The incident that resulted in the suspension occurred Nov. 15 when Lisa Freeman, a social worker with the state Department of Children and Families, called police to the home of Karla Huaman to help her get her son to a court-ordered psychological evaluation related to truancy.
[Why the hell are we forcing psychological evaluations on children because they skip school?]
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In the suit, Huaman and Freeman described a violent attack by Tinsley after the boy refused to get off the couch, saying the officer “exploded” and threw him to the ground, punching and kicking the handcuffed child.


