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Geez, sorry to hear you were harassed so badly. I don't understand how police can illegally detain you and then instead of apologizing that they made a mistake, they scold you for acting within the law. The police have no business interacting with law abiding citizens, and when they screw up as badly as they have done here, they should face the music and profusely apologize for wasting _your_ time and putting you through unneeded stress and physical pain.
I have several police officers in my family, but whenever I interact with cops, they are always jerks (actually, my one interaction with two CHP officers was very professionally done, big props to them). To me, they're just another citizen who happens to have a different job than I do. They aren't better than anybody else, but they should be held to a higher standard when it comes to knowing the law, since that is what they are paid to do.
I'm glad you weren't arrested, and I hope the variety of illegal things that occurred here will be accounted for.