I'm sorry you had to have any involvement in that morass of a mess too. I've had more friendly interactions with the police in the new state I live in, 1500 miles away--although before that incident I never had any run-ins with the law in Wichita after living there 25 years off and on. Here, my wife and I wave back at them when they drive by.
This isn't the America I grew up in, the one where my parents taught me to trust, but verify authority. It seems like everything in our society is "upside down" these days--I really do want to trust our institutions, we have them for a reason--but the cracks are now canyons and it's easy to slip through. I guess it's trite to say it, but "When they came for the oddball, nebbish computer nerds, I did nothing because I wasn't a..."
Thank you for your sympathetic comments, they did make me feel better for sure, and best wishes.