Stand your ground laws...

[Bubblehead1980]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Kind of a nutty question. If you are assaulting a cop is that defending yourself? Sounds like resisting arrest to me. But lets take that with a grain of salt. We understand police get out of hand with the batons, etc. Not much you can defend yourself with if you are battered by baton welding police. One is kind of subdued quickly in that situation.

Well, if a cop is acting unjustly, you have the right to defend yourself if you are in fear of your life or great bodily harm since committing a crime under the color of authority is also a crime.However, it's rolling the dice because police are automatically assumed to be the good guys , it's an uphill battle and better make damn sure you are in the right, but there have been cases where people have had charges dropped or found not guilty for defending themselves against police going too far.