Seth wrote:
No, I established that obstructing is a crime. You don't have to disobey an instruction to stop, you can be arrested simply for obstructing:
Nobody's disputing that. That's the bleedn obvious.
Your post wrote:
Yes, actually, it is:
18-8-104. Obstructing a peace officer, firefighter, emergency medical services provider, rescue specialist, or volunteer.
(1) (a) A person commits obstructing a peace officer, firefighter, emergency medical services provider, rescue specialist, or volunteer when, by using or threatening to use violence, force, physical interference, or an obstacle, such person knowingly obstructs, impairs, or hinders the enforcement of the penal law or the preservation of the peace by a peace officer, acting under color of his or her official authority;
It's perfectly clear that doing nothing doesn't fulfill any of these criteria. Not unless you are already doing them.
Your claim that failing to obey an instruction ON IT'S OWN is obstruction is obviously false.
There may have been a few cases where an officer has tried, or even succeeded in claiming that distracting his attention is obstruction. That's not using or threatening to use violence, force, physical interference or an obstacle.
A few silly rulings in local hick courts doesn't make it a fact.
I have an awful feeling that bad news is imminent.
