re: Jury awards $18 to innocent black man who was punched, tasered and arrested

From what I read this is wrong (if more to the story I will change my opinion). Typically I side with LEO but from what I read they were looking for his brother and even after they realized he was not his brother they continued with the arrest.

I understand the "resisting arrest" by Franklin, if I'm asleep and all of a sudden I'm being grabbed for "no reason" I'm fighting back too. I personally think "resisting arrest" is a bullsh t charge that gets thrown in all the time. There are other bs charges as well but resisting is tops IMHO. i know don't resist just comply and everything will be OK. I agree with this statement, however; if I'm asleep in my bed and get woken up by this I'm in a fight mode not flight mode.

Luckily nobody was shot (how sad to have to say that). The Jury agreed with him on principal but the award is not commiserate with the injustice that I perceive he endured. Did he endure 100k-300k in damage? Probably not, but it was alot more than $18.