“I always knew that there was risk of arrest because of the type of stories that I cover, but until it happens to you, you don’t understand the emotional and psychological impact that it has,” Ms. Morin said afterward, speaking to a group of reporters outside the police station. “And I think that it is a tactic that they use to send that message. To impede, to insult, discredit and to intimidate the media.”

This statement hits, because it’s describing a traumatic event. Have you ever had a faceless gov’t agency decide you’re the enemy? Have you ever been treated like a criminal, despite no wrong doing? Have you ever known what was happening is wrong, but you’re helpless to stop it?

It’s traumatic, and we all know that. Yet for decades it’s a long standing practice within law enforcement to arrest someone for merely “resisting arrest.” How can one resist an arrest, if the arrest should never have occurred? without an inciting event, it’s paradoxical in nature, and flatly absurd on its face. And yet, it continues.

The phrase oft repeated is that these cops are just “bad apples,” or the exception, not the rule. But what’s left out is that the entirety of the phrase is “one bad apple spoils the bunch.” And boy, is our bunch spoiled.