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They had probable cause to chase and detain.
Had a knife not been found he would have been released and walked away. But a knife believing to be a violation of the law was found and that constitutes the probable cause.
Wrong, absolutely 100% wrong. They had no probable cause. To have probable cause according to the US Supreme Court.. is to "where the facts and circumstances within the officers' knowledge, and of which they have reasonably trustworthy information, are sufficient in themselves to warrant a belief by a man of reasonable caution that a crime is being committed.”
They had no reasonably trustworthy information, i.e. they had no knowledge he was committing a crime.