You're just not very bright. I will repeat this for you, since you totally didn't grasp it the first time around.
Cops jump on you for no legit reason and just don't screaming "Stop resisting" and the only thing you are charged with is "resisting arrest." How can that be your only charge if you did no crime to "resist arrest" to begin with?
If they arrest you for a crime, then you must have committed another crime OTHER THAN RESISTING ARREST. Otherwise, you would be be arrested in the first place, so you would have no arrest to resist.
If you can't grasp this, your operating at a 3rd-grade level of thinking.
If a police officers says, "You are under arrest" for no legitimate reason, then you undergo the arrest and challenge the arrest in court. I quoted California's ******* statute on this issue, and the law does not give the arrestee the option of resisting the arrest if he thinks the arrest is unfounded.
Further, the fact that you are too stupid to understand the difference between (1) the alleged wrongdoing giving rise to the arrest and (2) the crime of resisting arrest, a completely separate offense, merely underscores your idiocy.
Let me try and explain it in a fashion that even a dumbfuck like you can understand.
Cop gets word that a purse snatcher is in the area. Sees a guy fitting the description of the purse snatcher and says, "You are under arrest." The guy is not the purse snatcher, however, and instead is a visiting college professor, so the arrest is bogus.
Can that guy resist the arrest, knowing that he should not be arrested and has committed no crime?
No. Fight the underlying charge in court, not in a street scuffle.
Finally, I appreciate your sage legal analysis, but I cited a ******* statute proving I am right and you are a blithering idiot:
Penal Code, § 834a: "If a person has knowledge, or by the exercise of reasonable care, should have knowledge, that he is being arrested by a peace officer,
it is the duty of such person to refrain from using force or any weapon to resist such arrest."
The statute does not reference "legitimate" arrest, does it, asswipe?
So to sum up: (1) Citizens are NOT entitled to resist arrest for any reason, no matter how valid the arrest; (2) you are an idiot and cannot understand basic English; and (3) your purported "knowledge" of the law would not fill a thimble. In terms you may be able to comprehend, here is the status of our debate on this point:
POOP (on right) makes his argument. Steeltime (on left) responds. DING, DING, fight over!!