There are a few things that bother me about the story but the conversation about it has been good.
These are things that I am interested to know or that I find weird -
1. OP bailed on his own post - weird
2. OP never really said he gave the officer his permit, he just stated he had one. Did he have it on him when he was stopped? if not then this could lead to the cuffs until he verifies permit.
3. Why did the OP get pulled over? Maybe he was leaving a bar or was driving like he did. So the officer was questioning him to see if he was coming from a bar where maybe he would be impaired.
4. I guess there are good reasons for an officer to engage you in conversation - A) determine if your speech seems slurred. B) see if your breath smells of alcohol.
5. OP seemed like before the officer told him the real reason he was stopping him he was asking the officer if he was free to go. So this may have made the officer feel that he was acting suspeciously, nervously or scared.
The OP may very well have good answers for all of these but I think that it would just be a nice piece of the puzzle if we knew the answers. That doesn't make the other good dicussion go away but it does shine a bit more light on it all.
These are things that I am interested to know or that I find weird -
1. OP bailed on his own post - weird
2. OP never really said he gave the officer his permit, he just stated he had one. Did he have it on him when he was stopped? if not then this could lead to the cuffs until he verifies permit.
3. Why did the OP get pulled over? Maybe he was leaving a bar or was driving like he did. So the officer was questioning him to see if he was coming from a bar where maybe he would be impaired.
4. I guess there are good reasons for an officer to engage you in conversation - A) determine if your speech seems slurred. B) see if your breath smells of alcohol.
5. OP seemed like before the officer told him the real reason he was stopping him he was asking the officer if he was free to go. So this may have made the officer feel that he was acting suspeciously, nervously or scared.
The OP may very well have good answers for all of these but I think that it would just be a nice piece of the puzzle if we knew the answers. That doesn't make the other good dicussion go away but it does shine a bit more light on it all.