Comment: Van Brocklin is right.  Right on the law, and right in thinking that encouraging refractory reactions to arrest could endanger both citizens and officers.  But she ignores the other side of the equation: police conduct.  There are countless stories of policemen--some of them back up by videos--violently jumping non-violently resisting people.  There are far too many stories of officers using 50, 60, 70 shots to neutralize a target, who sometimes is shown not to be armed at all.   There are stories of policemen watching a wounded person bleed to death on the floor of the station without summoning help.  And then, our police patrol city streets looking like stormtroopers--armored, heavily armed with automatic weapons, backed up by light tanks.  Does Van Brocklin think all this has nothing to do with why Americans, especially minority and poor5 Americans, feel the police are an occupying force without moral legitimacy?