Antonyms for resisting arrestre·sist·ing ar·rest

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1. • Assault
   • Battery

Princeton's WordNet

1. resisting arrestnoun

   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

How to use resisting arrest in a sentence?

1. Brian Encinia:

   When you pull away from me, you're resisting arrest.

2. Peter King:

   You had a 350-pound person who was resisting arrest. The police were trying to bring him down as quickly as possible, if he had not had asthma and a heart condition and was so obese, almost definitely he would not have died.

3. Donald Williams:

   I said,' officer, he's not resisting arrest, you have your knee on him and you have handcuffs on him, he's detained at this moment,'.

4. Lewis Langham:

   Patrick Lyoya was legally obligated to do. He failed to produce a license, he was driving on a bad registration tag, resisting arrest... not to mention the fact had Patrick Lyoya not been shot and killed, Patrick Lyoya would have been charged with one or two felonies. One attempting to disarm a police officer and resisting arrest.

5. Theresa Rucks:

   She shouldn’t have been in any kind of trouble. Now it turned out to be where she’s in McCracken because the assistant principal did not like what her shirt had read, they got her with resisting arrest for a shirt that was peaceful protesting.

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