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I don't think so? I didn't even know that was a trope Normally they just don't forcibly handcuff people for no reason and place them under arrest (at least with a huge crowd watching and recording).
Typically what happens when police want to charge you with something, but they don't have evidence, they'll say we want you to come in and answer some questions, and it's your right to refuse. Bc if they could actually force you to come in, they would just arrest you instead of asking.
I'm not sure how it works in cases where some random person apparently targeted you and called for your arrest without any sort of step 2 plan other than maybe hoping you just wouldn't ask for a lawyer and refuse to talk?
If they held you until your lawyer arrived, even a mediocre lawyer wouldn't say after 24 hours we can go, they would ask what you're being charged with, and if the cops didn't have anything they would say we're leaving right now (which is probably what happened here).
I know when the feds raided that apartment building in Chicago they broke down doors, pulled people from their beds, and put at least one elderly man in handcuffs for absolutely no reason, and refused to let him contact a lawyer until they could figure out who he was.
That is even worse than charging somebody with "precrime." Imagine some masked assholes breaks down your door, pulls you out of bed, puts you in cuffs, ignores your requests to contact lawyer, and tells you to chill the fuck out until they can figure out if you're a threat.
Certainly starts to make the 2nd amendment make sense