Originally Posted by
Marko
He did know his laws, he was simply having a little power trip and counting on you to not know your laws enough to stand your ground.
Being nice to such people brings you no benefit whatsoever. What you need to do is be civil but firm and keep insisting on your rights, one of which is to get his name and badge number and write a bunch of complaints - to his superiors (not much use, just for the sake of generating paper trail), to the local Congressman, to the media and to the local ACLU chapter.
There was a string of lawsuits and settlements recently about just this kind of harassment, most of them in NYC. The figures, at least those that made the news, were in the 20-30K range, depending on the incident.
Once their budget gets chipped significantly enough, they'll start paying attention.
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