When is it okay to resist the police? And when you do, even for a misdemeanor are the police just supposed to let you go?
Essentially your argument is of the variety of ... "Well, we have to enforce the law by any means necessary or else we will have chaos?"
Lets say you are speeding 5mph over the speed limit. That is breaking the law. Should the police have the right to pull you over, break your window, drag you out of your car and slam you on the ground and arrest you?
I can EASILY argue that speeding 5mph over the speed limit is way way worse than stealing a candy bar and by extension using your logic I can easily argue that police should drag anyone who is speeding out of their car kicking and screaming and arrest them...
There is a 3rd option, in fact the vast majority of officers utilize this third option all the time.
Simply write a ticket.
A kid is caught stealing a candy bar from a vending machine, the evidence against said kid is overwhelming. Simply write him a ticket. That is how misdemeanors should be handle-- that is, there should be a proportional response.
DO you have no sense of justice? Justice is more than just "Well you broke the law so you get what you get and whatever you get is your fault..."
Seriously???
This is what is fundamentally broken in this country in regards to our law enforcement. There is no sense of proportionality and justice. It is like we are using kindergarten level logic tied to a binary yes/no switch. Did you break the law? Yes. Then whatever happens is your fault!!!!
No. We can't claim to be a moral and ethical people using tyrannical immoral logic like that. Life is a bit more complex than that and human beings have a sense of morality and justice.
Punishment should always fit the crime and law enforcement has a vehicle to dispense justice for misdemeanors--- it's called writing a ticket. If the person refuses to pay the ticket then law enforcement has a vehicle to address that--- it's called a lien.
See, easy peezy...
