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I just don't understand what's the point of fighting the police. You will never win even if you're right. The best you can do is run away or comply, right? I just genuinely don't understand the fight perspective as non American.
Some people fight because they are stunned and confused, as cops will often attack with overwhelming force without identifying themselves. Others fight because some people do get away.
In the grimmiest case, people fight because they know that they are about to get "death by cop" because some power tripping or racist asshole knows they can kill them and just get away with it.
I mean fuck, 13 prison guards just beat a man to death in a New york state prison hospital while he was handcuffed, and the only reason anything is being done is that 4 considered the murder so mundane they didn't even take off their body cameras. They dragged him in handcuffed and dazed, already clearly beaten, then proceeded to punch his face, kick is groin, stuff a rag into his mouth as he screamed, lift his body up by his neck, breaking his spine, and then pushed him up against a wall to die. They then stripped him, took of the handcuffs and put him on the gurney and pretended they didn't know why he was near dead. The NY AG release the footage of it. You can watch a dozen men murder him in cold blood. The worst part? It is clearly completely normal for them to do this shit. They just finally killed someone.
I can name a dozen more cases like the above off hand, in the wider world or in our prisons, done by cops or prison guards.
When faced with the above when you comply, why not try to fight your way out? If every stop is a possible death sentence, why not try to survive by killing them first?