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KSA 021-052-0027 – Law enforcement officer making arrest

Kansas Statutes Annotated § KSA 021-052-0027

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21-5227.Law enforcement officer making arrest.(a) A law enforcement officer, or any person whom such officer has summoned or directed to assist in making a lawful arrest, need not retreat or desist from efforts to make a lawful arrest because of resistance or threatened resistance to the arrest. Such officer is justified in the use of any force which such officer reasonably believes to be necessary to effect the arrest and the use of any force which such officer reasonably believes to be necessa

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