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I'm not so sure he wasn't arrested, legally speaking. If he had resisted I certainly suspect he'd have been charged with resisting arrest. https://www.law.corne

• brbsix 10y ago
  I've been arrested under similar (in other words completely unfounded) conditions. After a few hours in a holding cell they just handed me a form and drove me back home. I wish I remembered the name of the form but it essentially nullified the arrest as if none had taken place. However from what I've read on this story it sounds as though the young man was simply detained pursuant to an investigation (or at least that would be the official story).
• talmand 10y ago
  Resisting arrest means you haven't been arrested yet. If he was already under arrest then he couldn't resist it. He was being detained. If he were under arrest then there's procedure to that which has to be followed. But while being detained if one were to be argumentative then it could change from being detained to being under arrest, which then resisting arrest comes into play. But that's just arguing over semantics that typically don't come up at the court hearing. People get charged with non-relevant crap all the time to trump up the charges.