Quote Originally Posted by Markass
"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).

"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.

There is no such thing as 'resisting arrest' when the arrest itself isn't even justified...The taser was completely unnecessary especially considering he volunteered to walk out before they tasered him if they would just let him go..

I would've done the exact same thing that guy did..fuck the cops, they're not gonna put their hands on me because I ask a couple of questions, that's why we got our independence from britain in 1776, so that we could say anything we wanted to in our country, whether it be about the government or anything, we can say it, and cops have no right to arrest us for asking or saying anything, I don't care what it is.
He resisted being escorted out of the building. He was then arrested for disturbance of the peace. Now where is the unlawful arrest. You say he volunteered to walk out but when did he do that? Oh yea, he did that after resisting twice to being escorted out. He wasn't worried about leaving until they had him on the ground! He knew he went to far and sadly for him there was no going back.