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You kidding right? See what happens the next time you disobey an officer.
Remember Rodney King?
How about failure to obey a lawful order? Creating a public nuisance… Trespassing.
There are propably a half dozen other laws they could have used to arrest students.
Remember it’s only the cop’s job to arrest you. It’s the judge’s job to figure out if the cop made a good application of the law he arrested you under. Either way you get locked the fuck up and your time and money is down the drain…
I am not defending the police… Believe me I got my own opinions on them but you have got to kidding me if you dont think the cops had the authority to do what they did despite what you think…
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I’m actually not kidding. The most obvious would be the failure to obey a lawful order. Everything a LEO says is not a lawful order, despite the fact that many would like to have that authority. They make requests under their authority all the time. But there aren’t very many that qualify as lawful orders. In most states they’re specifically granted the authority to direct traffic. Or to conduct investigations. Or protect the peace. So violating orders given in the process of those duties would be a failure to obey a lawful order. Lawful orders are only those which laws grant the police specific authority. Absent that authority, there is no lawful order.
Hence, as far as I know, none of the students involved were ever pursued on charges of failure to comply.
