Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1912 — Officer Is Justified In Using Club When Prisoner Resists. [ARTICLE]

Officer Is Justified In Using Club When Prisoner Resists.

'lite law-abiding people are always in the majority, but perhaps do not make as much poise as the other fellows, and while little mixups , like that which occurred on the street, here Monday are to be deplored, yet public .sentiment cannot afford to condemn an officer for doing his duty. Neither can it condemn him for using his club when necessary. An officer is not obliged to enter into a fist fight with a man he seeks to put under arrest nor to conquer him by mere brute force. He is not obliged to take a- y chances whatever when a person resists him, but, to use any methods necessary to conquer hie prisoner.