Question for cops or lawyers.
Scottie is charged with disregarding signals from an officer directing traffic and second-degree assault of a police officer.
Reports are that the cop was wearing a yellow raincoat and was not clearly identifiable as a police officer. If you don’t know that a person is a cop, can you be be charged with assaulting a cop or disregarding signals from a cop? Is intent an issue? If I am driving and a plain clothes officer tells me to turn left and I turn right, have I committed a crime?
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