OPINION
MANNHEIMER, Judge.
In previous decisions, the Alaska Supreme Court and this Court have held that a person is not authorized to use force to resist police officers who are making an unlawful arrest (unless the officers use excessive force when making the arrest). We now hold that this same rule applies when police officers use force to detain a person during an investigative stop.
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