View Single Post
Old 08-19-2014, 03:09 PM   #676
Coffee Warlord
Head Coach
 
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Colorado Springs
Quote:
Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA View Post
"Failure To Obey" is on the books in a whole lot of places. "Obstruction" is pretty universal. "Interfering" is another one.

Some, but not all, including the modifier "obey a lawful command" ... but the street generally isn't a great place to argue that point. You'll lose the argument most of the time, an improper command just doesn't buy you an extra/more serious charge later.

That's not an attitude, it's law.

The whole "Failure to Obey", to me, is a horseshit law in the first place, that has no place in this country.

Though again, see my post right above, re: Reality and How It Should Be.

But yes. All of this should be tempered with common sense. Trying to have a discussion of how far an officer's authority goes in the middle of people throwing molotovs and looting building isn't exactly smart, and isn't going to end well.
Coffee Warlord is offline   Reply With Quote