I know practically this is a sensible position, but given how our police act* i have a hard time stomaching it and really can’t blame people for physically resisting. If the police want unquestioning compliance, they need to earn unquestionable respect. Unfortunately, as a group they not only are very fare from having earned such respect but don’t even seem to want to try.

*(eg if what actually happened is that he asked the officer to use their phone to help find his own lost phone [exactly the kind of help a regular citizen might expect an officer to happily provide] and they told him to fuck off, as some witnesses reported in the post story; alternatively, we can all think of other extensively reported examples of police misconduct)