Sorry Larken:

from Wikipedia, to which I attribute none of my trust, but here's what the proles believe:

"Most states have, either by statute or by case law, removed the unlawful arrest defense for resisting arrest."

"In the 1960s, courts began to limit the right to resist an unlawful arrest, apparently influenced by Warner and by the Model Penal Code, which had eliminated the right. In 1965, the first court struck down the right in New Jersey.

Although a few states adopted the Uniform Arrest Act, a majority of the states did not. The Model Penal Code in 1962 eliminated the right to resist an unlawful arrest on two grounds. First, there were better alternative means of resolving the issue; second, resistance would likely result in greater injury to the citizen without preventing the arrest. By 2012, only fourteen states allowed a citizen to resist an unlawful arrest.

The case also received negative treatment in subsequent Supreme Court cases, from Carroll v. United States in 1925, on arrests and vehicle searches, to Atwater v. City of Lago Vista in 2001, holding that an arrest without a warrant, even for a misdemeanor, is lawful when authorized by statute."