Resisting Arrest

Definition: Resisting Arrest

Resisting Arrest

Noun

1. Physical efforts to oppose a lawful arrest; the resistance is classified as assault and battery upon the person of the police officer attempting to make the arrest.

Non-Fiction Usage: Resisting Arrest

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Belarus	On that occasion, Spasyuk was sentenced to five days imprisonment for allegedly resisting arrest. (references)
	Azerbaijan	The ADP later reported that 15 members were tried and sentenced to 10 to 14 days in prison for public disorder and resisting arrest. (references)
	Kenya	On January 2, Odera was charged with publishing false information, trespassing, incitement to violence, and resisting arrest; he was released later in January. (references)
Human Rights	Brazil	Police say that Nascimento was shot while resisting arrest. (references)
	Nicaragua	Artola, resisting arrest, attacked the policemen with a machete. (references)
	Brazil	Almost without exception, the police investigators conclude that suspects were resisting arrest. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Resisting Arrest

Anagrams: Resisting Arrest

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-i-i-n-r-r-r-s-s-s-t-t"
	-3 letters: grittinesses.
	-4 letters: arteritises, garnierites, gastritises, rearresting, reasserting, registrants, reiterating, restrainers, restressing, traitresses, tristearins.
	-5 letters: airinesses, antistress, argentites, artinesses, artistries, errantries, estrangers, estreating, garnierite, giantesses, greasiness, grittiness, instigates, integrates, interstage, itinerates, registrant, registrars, registries, reinstates, resistants, resittings, restarting, restrainer, restraints, retreating, stingarees, straitness, strategies, stringiest, tanistries, tartnesses, tertiaries, titanesses, transgress, trignesses, tristearin.
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