First, I've gotta admit, the first thing that struck me about this clip when it hit the news was the absurdity of Fohlin repeatedly yelling "I'm a professor!"...as if that gave her some sort of immunity to arrest. I guess that sort of delusion might be a consequence of getting a plum gig at a place like Emory...
But, second: she ended up on the ground because she was resisting arrest. She was squealing about being put on the ground--and, honestly, she's probably never been knocked down in her life. But she wouldn't have ended up there if she didn't resist arrest.
Third: she admitted that she hit a cop on the head--"very lightly"--to interfere with his arrest of a student.
So: resisting arrest for interfering with the arrest of another person who was resisting arrest...
I'm sympathetic to the view that American cops have gone a bit too far with the use of nonlethal force. Though I don't know enough to really deserve an opinion on it, to be honest. But in this case the use of force seems justified, and the degree of force plausibly appropriate. Obivously I could be wrong.
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