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On 2025-07-08 22:56, AlleyCat wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 9 Jul 2025 00:52:54 -0400,  Alan says...
> 
>> 
>> On 2025-07-09 00:17, AlleyCat wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Tue, 8 Jul 2025 10:08:43 -0400,  Alan says...
>>> 
>>>>> So, he just stood there, not moving, not touching an ICE
>>>>> agents, not refusing to move out of the way?
>>> 
>>> Turns out... NO, he did not.
>>> 
>>> https://i.imgur.com/LLzcqBi.mp4
>> 
>> Someone pushed him and he pushed that person's hands off him.
> 
> If an officer puts hands on someone, say, to handcuff him, and he
> pushes the officer's hands away?
> 
> That's resisting.

So why were not charges laid for resisting arrest?

> 
> Byee!
> 
> Cops and ICE officers have the right to "control" situations, by
> detaining people who might be a part of an investigation, or in this
> case, someone who has gotten in the way of an officer's duties OR
> verbally berated them from a NOT-so-distant distance.
> 
> Watch Garcia's video. He's clearly too close to not be in the way.
> Of course, we can't see what HE did to get himself put down and 
> detained, because no one else was there. If ICE had body cams, maybe
> we'll see what he did later, on a NOT left-wing news show.
> 
>> How is that any evidence that he INITIATED the encounter?
> 
> Is that the topic?

Yup. It is very much the topic.

> 
> Nope.
> 
> Keep the minutiae whining to yourself.
> 
>>> 
>>>>> Got anyone else's video, showing the whole incident?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Yeah.... thought so.
>>> 
>>>> Have you got anything that contradicts them?
>>> 
>>> https://i.imgur.com/LLzcqBi.mp4
>>> 
>>> He admitted he laid hands on an ICE officer.
>> 
>> Nope. He admitted that someone (presumably an ICE officer) laid
>> hands on him and he reacted in a very normal way.
> 
> It is NOT "normal" for you to resist an officer's actions. Once he
> slapped the officer's hands away, that became resisting arrest or
> detainment.

So why wasn't he charged?