There are many reasons to resist, and most of them are very reasonable. Add to that the fact that when faced with a traumatic event, a person cannot be expected to act entirely rational and calm. Flight-or-flight reactions in the most healthy person can result in very unexpected behavior. Add to this a host of other possible mental issues, and you’re likely to have many people “resisting”.
So, yes – people can take risks in resisting or running if not doing so means guaranteed problems. If you’re going to end up in jail, lose a job, be unable to support your family, etc. it makes sense to run and resist.
Resisting is a very reasonable and expected thing from people. It’s human. So, dealing with people who resist is the main part of the job training police should have had if this is their job. If people resist – as they do – and the cops kill the person, mentioning the fact that the victim “resisted” as a way to make this anything other than a murder is disgusting. The only excuse pro-police people have for giving the police guns and extreme power is that they are professionals who are able to do their job (arrest people who resist without killing them).
The entire (as in 100%) of the burden for behaving a certain way during an interaction is on the police.