No argument from me. I'm 65 y/o and wouldn't want to be taken to the ground by anyone, LEO or not. My point was simply that there is a time and a place for arguing legalities as to how situations should or should not be handled. When out in public you absolutely must assume the LEO is acting in performance of his/her duty and thus follow their direction immediately and to the letter. Imo the driver in this case was wrong in the way he argued the point with the officer as well as the time and place he chose to make his argument.
I've had to face a LEO and accuse him of what I thought was inappropriate behavior. However I did it when and where it should have been done, which was by appointment in the office of his superior officer the day after the incident. I didn't succeed in my argument, but it didn't put me in handcuffs, thrown to the ground or into jail.
Kind of like posting on TFNS. It's not what you say, but how (and when) you say it.
Btw, I'm about to have my first knee replacement surgery next month. I hope it's the last major surgery I have to endure.