Andrew Meyer

[Taem]

And how do you change C? I'll tell you by fighting police officers in the moment will only make the matter worse. You fight the cause, just as blacks and women did, after the arrest. When you're face to face with an officer dead set on arresting you, physically fighting back won't win anything except a stricter punishment at their hands.

You can argue that its great fuel for the fight afterwards, which I would agree with fully. But to do anymore in the moment isn't helping to do anything but escalate the situation.

Cheers,

Munk

I wasn't necessarily talking about aggressively fighting back, but more along the lines of passive resistance, i.e. the black man who rode in the front of the bus and wouldn't leave when asked so he was arrested, and women who protested womens rights in the streets and burned their bras and were arrested for demonstrating in public (forgive me, but I just got back from work and don't feel like scouring the net for names). I believe in both these cases, they resisted arrest passively which resulted in their incarceration. Without these people resisting arrest, nothing would have been won for our civil liberties.