WordNet
n. physical efforts to oppose a lawful arrest; the resistance is classified as assault and battery upon the person of the police officer attempting to make the arrest
Wikipedia
In some countries, resisting arrest is a criminal charge against an individual who has committed, depending on the jurisdiction, at least one of the following acts:
- fleeing a police officer while being arrested
- threatening a police officer with physical violence while being arrested
- physically struggling to free oneself from being restrained (handcuffed or put into the police vehicle)
- attacking a police officer while being arrested
- providing an officer with false identification (either verbally or by presentation of a false official document, i.e. a fake ID)
The website Resisting Arrest stated that not all arrests are lawful and based upon probable cause. However, an attempt at resisting arrest can lead to additional charges.
Usage examples of "resisting arrest".
He'd never recovered from the beating the state troopers had given him on Mount Nazarene, fists, feet, billy clubs, resisting arrest was the charge, the provocation, he'd tasted his own death, black bile at the back of his mouth.
Without corroborating witnesses and testimony, there was no case at all for assault and attempted kidnapping, or resisting arrest.
You see Murphy and the police again, you'd better be careful or you're going to get shot to death resisting arrest.
He took six young men sentenced for street rioting, arson, mayhem, resisting arrest, assault on police and numerous other crimes.
Ephraim police headquarters, and booked for assault and disorderly conduct and resisting arrest (there'd been quite a struggle when police officers came to pick him up).
Leaving out the suicides and those killed while resisting arrest, there remain one hundred persons murdered, not only by persons insane or wild from the effects of liquor, but by robbers and burglars, brutes, bullies, and thugs, husbands, wives, and lovers, and by a vast number of people who not only destroyed their enemies in the fury of anger, but in many instances openly went out gunning for them, lay in wait for them in the dark, or hacked off their heads with hatchets while they slept.
If one or two of these guys get hurt or even killed resisting arrest, well, it all helps to relieve the pressure on the courts.
Perhaps I am guilty of resisting arrest, but I have not committed any treason in the Constitutional sense.
Kid's twenty-one years old, arrested for drunkenness and resisting arrest.
Charged with resisting arrest w/violence and possession of controlled subst.
I saw a piece of low-life shite - a child-killer actually - I saw him resisting arrest.