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You can argue until the end of time that it should be legal for somebody to ignore the lawful order of a police officer if they feel they have some sort of justification for their disobedience. As the OP found out, when you choose to ignore the lawful order of a police report, the person to whom you're apt to end up making your argument of justification is going to be the prosecutor, or the judge or jury at trial.
It's not arguing one has a right to disobey a lawful order. It is whether the order is lawful and as such does give a person a right to refuse to comply. I stand that it, at least as presented, was not a lawful order. Obviously a court will ultimately decide.


And again, thanks for the discussion. I did learn a few things.