Is a citizen's duty to obey? On killer cops and "compliance"

"Compliance."  This word is part of police discourse.  It comes up in the current trial of police officer Derek Chauvin for killing the black man George Floyd.  

This term is widely used by managerial authorities engaged in the social control of poor people.  

I have noticed that when I used to go an outpatient clinic at a city-run NYC hospital (serving primarily lower-income people) for medications, the doctors routinely in their records about you write up whether or not you are "compliant."  They don't like it if you want to say anything that isn't in their script.  I was told doing so is "psychotic."  They might try to "re-direct" me.  The patients are there to be directed, given orders; their job is to obey.  As with, generally, workers, especially outside the professional middle class.  Patients are treated like criminals.  Poor people are treated like criminals.  Welcome to America.  

"Those who will not speak about capitalism must not speak about fascism."  (Max Horkheimer).  

Our government kills people to defend the interests of capital.  The recent protests in America have happened because the techniques of war used against foreign populations have been brought home more conspicuously to this country's own people.  

Whole classes of this country's own residents and citizens are treated as presumptive enemy combatants in a class war meant to pacify and dominate, by any means necessary, meaning the use of violent force or the threat to use it, by our own government.  

The tyrant only ever says one thing: "You will obey me, or else.  Or else we will hurt you."  The person or body resisting says, "Stop hurting me.  I only want to live."  But that is not an argument for them.  It is part of their script if you say this; they expect it.  They need to believe that people resist the use of violent force against them, and of course they naturally do.  

I have been in this situation, and I'm not even a "person of color."   It outraged me, and still does, partly because I did not grow up expecting it.  I have seen that when you are being assaulted by agents of the government acting as police or something like it, the protest that they are hurting you is of no interest to them.  They only see that as continued misbehavior.  Which to them is disobedience.  

So should you try to convince yourself that the government must be just, and must be acting in the interests of the whole nation and its people, including you and me?  Well, there are certain problems with that, one being that it largely is not true.  

Slaves who rebel can be killed with impunity by governments like this.  All kinds of things are said in defense of what those in power and those who serve them do.  

In my case, what they did in part was to merely put some "people of color" in charge of threatening and punishing me.  Then they tell these people that if someone who looks like me is rebellious, he must be a racist or something.  This obviously is an argument one cannot win, unless you are able to show that the other person was not acting on their own behalf (and that of their own subjected minority people?) but that of the government.  

That government does not favor a privileged social group by ethnicity or any other determinant.  The fact that it is deployed against black people in particular does not mean it is deployed to benefit the interests of the "white" people who are supposed to be against them.  The government's police forces and all the related social control agencies are there to defend capitalism.  Their greatest fear is resistance to that.