My question involves police conduct in the State of: New Mexico
The easiest way to get to my question is to tell the complete story:
I arrived on the scene of my wife's car being repossessed. The 2 repo agents were doing their best to upset her as much as possible (saying to her things like "Hurry up and get your damn stuff, nothing is going to stop us from taking this car,..even with your ass hanging out of it." Obviously seeing my wife in distress put me on edge right out of the gate. I was trying to gather information and help my wife load her belongings when one of the agents told me that if we didn't move quicker he would call the police and have them arrest me for preventing him to leave. I told him to go right ahead and call the police. Several police units were on scene within minutes (small town, police station 3 blocks away, no surprise). First officer talks to the repo guy and then approaches me and asks me how I am doing. I told him I have been better obviously and that we were nearly done clearing out the car. As I am loading her belongings into my truck one of the repo men is repeatedly asking for the keys and being a complete jerk. I find the the keys, turn to the repo man who is standing next to the officer and say "Here are the keys bud", and with a weak under handed toss I send the keys his way. My toss was so weak that the keys actually fell 2 feet short of the repo man. The officer immediately yells "Are you ****ing kidding me right now?" To which I reply, "He wanted the keys, I tossed him the keys" The officer yells "That is assault, turn the **** around." I turn around, place my hands behind my back and am summarily arrested. The officer goes so far as to when he is clearing my pockets to say in my ear "Look now you are ****ing littering too." I keep my mouth shut and only give my name, SSN and DOB. He places me in a squad car and calls for a check. The check pulls up a warrant from another state for failure to appear for a child support case. I am taken to the jail (2 blocks away) and booked. I obviously plead Not Guilty to the misdemeanor assault charge and was out on OR without issue the next day for that. I was able to contact the other state and figure out the procedural error that led to a no bond warrant being issued and was able to get it rescinded as well.
Now for my question(s). The officer was standing in full view of the entire incident and should full well understand the definition of assault in N.M. The repo agents having asked for the keys and the keys being tossed underhanded absolve me of that crime and I am quite sure that the state will drop the charge before trial. However, I feel that the officer was deliberately acting of his own accord and stripped me of my liberty by claiming it was assault in the first place (also forgot to mention that he never read me my Miranda rights, not a catch all as he didn't attempt to question me). Would this be a violation of my rights? Is it a false arrest?
The next issue is that I have a high profile career, that same night an officer and a detention officer were in my place of business showing everyone my booking photo. This was done to attempt to destroy my credibility (small town, and my well known political aspirations in said small town).
Do I have grounds for and a chance to win a civil suit against the officer and police department? What motions would I need to file to prevent the department from deleting the bodycam and dashcam video of the incident?

