Under California law, resisting, delaying, or obstructing a police officer, while they are doing their job, can also be a stand-alone crime. There doesn't have to be an underlying charge. Captain Jeff ...

A Louisiana police chief says the state's new "blue lives matter" law, which makes it a hate crime to target a police officer, extends to simply resisting arrest. Andrew Katz/ZUMA Press/Newscom The ...

African Americans in San Francisco are cited for resisting arrest at a rate eight times greater than whites even when serious crimes are not involved, according to statistics drawn from court records.

Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, said he would not prosecute some instances of resisting arrest, prompting a dispute about the nature of policing. By Jonah E. Bromwich and Troy Closson ...

Police commissioner William Bratton told the Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC yesterday that there’s a trend of people resisting arrest. “What we’re seeing … over the last several months [is] a number of ...

Weeks after Gov. Ron DeSantis proposed a crackdown on civil disobedience and protesters who target police, a Florida prosecutor has instructed her staff to stop pursuing resisting arrest charges in ...

Handcuffed in the back of a Sterling Heights Police cruiser, Logan Davis knew he was being recorded by an in-car camera and said in frustration: "You see what they do to Black, young men in America ...

NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton today called for the state to change resisting arrest to a felony charge. Mr. Bratton testified today before a joint hearing of four State Senate committees, where he ...

The crime in Atlanta’s latest racial explosion is that city authorities with hair-trigger quickness fired Officer Garrett Rolfe for shooting Rayshard Brooks in the back. Mr. Brooks, 27, while ...

Resisting or obstructing a reserve police officer in Michigan isn't a crime, according to a recent Michigan Court of Appeals ruling that at least one statewide law enforcement official says will have ...