Except quite some cases do not involve resisting arrest. Take all those swatting cases for example. Good honest people don’t deal with cops on a daily basis, or

Except quite some cases do not involve resisting arrest. Take all those swatting cases for example. Good honest people don’t deal with cops on a daily basis, or at all; so when cops suddenly show up with guns drawn while shouting commands (sometimes indistinguishably), they get utterly confused and panic, and naturally may not be able to comply with anything. And it doesn’t matter whether you actually pose a threat; as long as you might be perceived to pose a threat (or maybe not even that), you could end up dead. Holding a phone in your hand? “Looks like a gun to me” — bam, you’re a goner. Can’t see your hands? Bam. During the decade I lived in the States, I often wonder if I would be the next random guy to fall victim to cops. (That, and random mass shootings. Things totally out of my control.) Simply not a fear I ever had to deal with everywhere else I’ve lived or traveled.