Is running form the police considered to be civil disobedience?

Question

I know things like not paying taxes (then going to jail) is civil disobedience, but if you conmmit a crime and then run, is that civil disobedience too?

What about if you just express hate for the goverment/police (like cursing them)

example: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/2pac/outonbail.html

would that song considered to be one with a civil disobedience theme?

From what I understand, it can all be civil disobedience as long as you dont use violence..

Thanks, but I'm not looking for the consequences, my question is whether or not the two examples are considered to be civil disobedience

Answer 1

Civil disobedience is political speech in the form of doing something. In other words, there is a law regarding where you can and can't protest, and you break it, you are breaking the law, but you are doing it for a cause. It's civil disobedience. Of course, you get arrested and if the speech component doesn't go far enough, you get the consequences. Running from the cops after you committed a crime is not "civil disobedience." If they have the right to arrest you, it is just committing another crime. Saying you hate the cops or the government, is not civil disobedience. It is just speech and speech is free (for the most part). Civil disobedience is subjective, because one man's crime is another man's protest against the government. When Martin Luther King got arrested for protesting where there were laws regarding when he could protest and when he could not (and the laws were that mostly he could not), that was civil disobedience. No one with any sense is going to suggest that running from the cops after committing a run of the mill crime where no speech is concerned is civil disobedience. Protesting in the wrong place might be. Destroying genetically engineered crops in an experimental field to protest genetically engineered crops (a valid political stance, even if you don't agree with it) is probably taking it a little too far. If violence is used, it is not civil disobedience. However, just because violence is not used, that doesn't cut it. Spray painting political graffiti doesn't cut it, but it is political speech. No violence there, but most people wouldn't agree that it is civil disobedience. Of course, many didn't agree King's civil disobedience was civil disobedience at the time either. But don't take it too far.

Additionally, you need to do it for some political cause and to draw attention to your cause. Doing it to say you are cool doesn't cut it. Doing it to protest whales, the war, or raciscm AND so that your action draws attention to that cause is required for civil disobedience. But there are other requirements and the worse your action is or the less attention you intend to draw will make more and more folks think it isn't civil disobedience.

Answer 2

If you commit a crime and run, that is called evasion, and can also be called resisting arrest. Civil disobedience is if you do not do what the police say in a non violent manner, i.e, not leaving a demonstration after being told to disburse.

Answer 3

If you run from the police after committing a crime, it is also a crime called evasion. It can add up to 2 years to whatever sentence you will receive for the original crime you committed.

If you curse at a police officer, you are entitled to your first amendment rights. I wouldn't recommend it, though.

Answer 4

Nope, it's a crime!

Answer 5

its called..... "Freedom of Speech"