Resisting An Officer Defense in Shreveport, Bossier City, LA

Resisting an Officer is defined as the intentional interference, opposition, resistance to, or obstruction of an individual acting within his/her official capacity and authorized by law to make a lawful arrest, lawful detention, seizure of property, or to serve any lawful process or court order.
The offender must know or have reason to know that the person arresting, detaining, seizing property, or serving process is acting in his official capacity.[1]
The law differs when an offender resists an officer with force or violence. Resisting an officer with force or violence has occurred when an offender does any of the following:[2]

• Use threatening force or violence before the arresting officer can restrain the offender and after notice is given that the offender is under arrest or detention.
• Use threatening force or violence, oppose, or resist the arresting officer after the arrested party is actually placed under arrest and before he is incarcerated in jail.
• Injure or attempt to injure a police officer engaged in the performance of his duties as a police officer.
• Use or threaten to use force or violence toward a police officer performing any official duty.