A. It is unlawful for any person, without justifiable or excusable cause, knowingly or willfully to:
1. Resist, oppose, obstruct, or in any way interfere with the Chief of Police, any other police officer or other officer of the law, or any person duly authorized to act as such, the Municipal Judge, or any other officer or employee of the City while such person is discharging or attempting to discharge his official duties;
2. Threaten or otherwise intimidate or attempt to intimidate any such officer or employee from the discharge of his official duties;
3. Commit any assault upon the person of or revile, abuse, be disrespectful to, use abusive or indecent language toward or about any such officer or employee while such officer or employee is in the discharge of his official duties;
4. Warn or signal another so as to assist such other person to flee, escape, or evade an officer seeking to make an arrest or for any person to bar or lock any door or barrier in the face of or in front of an approaching officer.
B. Resisting an officer is the intentional opposition or resistance to or obstruction of an individual acting in his official capacity and authorized by law to make a lawful arrest or seizure of property or to serve any lawful process or court order when the offender knows or has reason to know that the person arresting, seizing property, or serving process is acting in his official capacity.
C. The words "obstruction of" shall, in addition to their common meaning, include:
1. Flight by one sought to be arrested before the arresting officer can restrain him and after notice is given that he is under arrest;
2. Any violence toward or any resistance or opposition to the arresting officer after the arrested party is actually placed under arrest or before he is under arrest; or
3. Refusal by the arrested party to give his name and make his identity known to the arresting officer.
(Code 1991, §§ 10-601, 10-603, 10-610)