Illinois Compiled Statutes 720 ILCS 5 Criminal Code of 2012. Section 7-7

(720 ILCS 5/7-7) (from Ch. 38, par. 7-7)

Sec. 7-7. Private person's use of force in resisting arrest. A person is not authorized to use force to resist an arrest which he knows is being made either by a peace officer or by a private person summoned and directed by a peace officer to make the arrest, even if he believes that the arrest is unlawful and the arrest in fact is unlawful.

(Source: P.A. 86-1475.)

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