So I'm riding down the sidewalk about 20 feet from the bike path down by the river where i am going to go for a ride and a cop car shines its spot in my face. So i wave at him after deciding not to give him the finger, but only just.

Another cop car stops and a woman yells at me to stop. I'm about 10 feet from the bike path and it is night time if i want i am gone but i decide to stop and i go back to her.

I ask her what's up and she says that there was a report of a bicyclist hit by a car. I say well it's not me and i have no idea what you are talking about. She asks me my name and i say why? She repeats her question. Asks me for my name, my address, and my SSN. Then she asks me if i have id. I say no. She says that I'm required to carry id at all times.

About here i lose it and i say, what? In Russia? I say it's obvious i wasn't in a wreck as i told you that. My bike is fine and I am fine so i'm done here. She says im not going anywhere. We get in a pissy and i yell back at the other car which one of you is the supervisor. The supervisor is in the car and comes running up to me all red in the face like he wants to wack me with his night stick. He starts yelling at me for giving his officer a hard time yada yada yada. He checks my bike and sees it has a license and a front and rear light and says so.

The get more huffy with me and won't let me leave and give me this cop threat routine.

So here's the question-- obviously i could have handled it in a nicer way and i didn't win any points for the cycling community but was that cop right in what she did? I'm obviously not injured, it's obviously not me so their probable cause to stop me is done. Am i required to give the cops my info-- i did-- but further am i required to carry id on me at all times or did that cop lie to me?