My question involves a traffic ticket from the state of: California
Hi guys, I'm not here to get flamed, just to share my experience and gain some insight.
So, I received my license in April and was finally able to purchase my first car at the end of November and start driving.
Then exactly one month later I got a ticket:
VC 22107 Lane change without signaling
No front license plate
No insurance
I was driving behind a slow moving vehicle and decided to get into the lane next to it and proceed on my way. However the lane turned out to be a left turn only lane so I immediately got back over only this time I was in front of the vehicle that I had previously been behind. An officer pulled me over and told me that I was road raging and that I need to act more responsibly. He kept telling me to man up and just admit to road raging, going on about how the other driver probably deserved it and that I was just the one that got caught in a back and forth between me and the other driver. It was like a scene from the movie Anger Management.
He threatened to arrest me for assault with a deadly weapon and attempted murder, needless to say I was shitting myself at this point and just agreed with everything he said.
The officer said if I contested the ticket that he would file the aforementioned charges.
Every time I would ask him a question about how I could have done better under the circumstances he would just call me ignorant.
I had to wait for the dealership to special order a bracket to come to mount the plate
I had insurance but hadn't received the card in the mail yet
Is there anything I can reasonably do about this ticket without him trying to incarcerate me?
For the correctable violations do I have to go back to the city where I got the ticket to show them it's been fixed or can I ask a local officer?
Also there isn't a fine amount on the ticket so I'm not sure how to pay it.
I see people who are about to miss their freeways interchange switch lanes late all the time and not get ticketed or arrested. What did I do different? (This is one of the questions that I asked the cop that resulted in his calling me ignorant.) I'm still trying to figure out the rules of the road. Please help.

