I double dare you to go to Texas, find a police officer arresting someone and you go film them from a safe distance. Bonus points if you don’t have a white skin.
If you survive the ordeal, I’ll see you when you get out of prison after 2 months of waiting for a trial that then never happened because of course they know they can’t jail you for this but they can actually jail you for this until a judge finally says no.
In Texas, if you can’t pay bail, it can be years (until the statute of limitations runs out). If you can pay bail, you can get out the next day, but can be out on bail for years (which can come with restrictions of personal freedoms, and is public record [hope you don’t need to find a job during that time]), with court dates every few months, and the DA resetting at the last minute. (personal experience).
They can already arrest you and do all that with interfering as a misdemeanor. Reclassifying interfering as a felony doesn’t change anything in your scenario. Don’t get me wrong, this is bad, but it doesn’t directly give cops more power. It just increases the punishment for something that is already a crime.
… Which is exactly what happens all the time
I double dare you to go to Texas, find a police officer arresting someone and you go film them from a safe distance. Bonus points if you don’t have a white skin.
If you survive the ordeal, I’ll see you when you get out of prison after 2 months of waiting for a trial that then never happened because of course they know they can’t jail you for this but they can actually jail you for this until a judge finally says no.
The real USA doesn’t work like the theory USA
In Texas, if you can’t pay bail, it can be years (until the statute of limitations runs out). If you can pay bail, you can get out the next day, but can be out on bail for years (which can come with restrictions of personal freedoms, and is public record [hope you don’t need to find a job during that time]), with court dates every few months, and the DA resetting at the last minute. (personal experience).
They can already arrest you and do all that with interfering as a misdemeanor. Reclassifying interfering as a felony doesn’t change anything in your scenario. Don’t get me wrong, this is bad, but it doesn’t directly give cops more power. It just increases the punishment for something that is already a crime.