M. Gessen is an Opinion columnist for The Times. They won a George Polk Award for opinion writing in 2024. They are the ...

If only Eric Garner wasn’t resisting arrest, he would be alive. NYPD defenders told me that as I covered the months of rage following the July death of the Staten Island man, as police tried to arrest ...

In the wake of Eric Garner’s death, the head of the NYC Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, a police interest group, blamed Garner: “You cannot resist arrest, that’s a crime.” But it’s not a crime ...

A Louisiana police chief says the state's new "blue lives matter" law, which makes it a hate crime to target a police officer, extends to simply resisting arrest. Andrew Katz/ZUMA Press/Newscom The ...

Resistance to authority and other signs of disrespect in the workplace can begin to undermine the manager's credibility and cause dissension and dysfunction. The conflicts that may arise as a result ...

Police commissioner William Bratton told the Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC yesterday that there’s a trend of people resisting arrest. “What we’re seeing … over the last several months [is] a number of ...

Handcuffed in the back of a Sterling Heights Police cruiser, Logan Davis knew he was being recorded by an in-car camera and said in frustration: "You see what they do to Black, young men in America ...

Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, said he would not prosecute some instances of resisting arrest, prompting a dispute about the nature of policing. By Jonah E. Bromwich and Troy Closson ...

When you read the title, you may have had a double take: “A mental coach is telling me to accept my negativity? How can that be?” I realize that my statement is counterintuitive, but let me show you ...