My question involves criminal law for the state of: GA
I was shopping with my friend and our children. We honestly did nothing wrong. We looked around the store for a bit and we did try on a bunch of clothes only to purchase a few, but we are women with children. That happens. It's very hard to find clothes to fit right. Anyway, we carried the clothes into seperate dressing rooms and we obviously had our children with us. We both had our children in strollers and we did have diaper bags in the bottom. Anyway, we purchased the items we wanted and ATTEMPTED to leave the store. We had just stepped outside when some guy ran up to us sayin he was with theft prevention and he wanted his stuff back. We laughed it off and told him good luck with that. He was serious! Then another guy, A BIG GUY, comes out and says he needs us to come with him. We obviously refused and attempted to walk toward our car the two men stepped in front of us and told us not to make this harder than it had to be. He told us we had to come with them. Then they escorted us to a back room. We was scared at that point. Well we get back to the room and are forced to stay in there. They didn't question us or anything they just threw us in the small room with security cameras and the big guy stood in front of the door. We were not allowed to leave. I know this bc one of my children was begging to use the restroom and I asked him to please let me leave and he said you are not going anywhere and turned the lock on the door. Talk about freaky right. All the children were crying at this point. Well anyway the cops came and the big guy tells them that he has us on tape going into a dressing room and we stole some stuff. He also told them that we admitted to stealing and we did no such thing. I did say at one point to my friend. "What are we gonna do?" bc we were going to be late for a b-day party that our kids were very much looking forward to. Anyway, the cops get there and they are not much nicer. They tell us we have to open our bags and we were like under what grounds. and the cop asked the big guy if we were detained and big guy said yes and the cop said they have the right to search your belongings. So we agreed and handed them our bags. The cop just dumped everything out in the floor just to find guess what NOTHING. Just diapers, wipes, formula, and all the basics. Anyway, the big guy then suggests that the goods must be ON us, so you can guess where it goes from there. Anyway, it was a horrible ordeal and after they finally searched every nook and crannie they agreed to let us go without an apology I might add. I even told the cops that I wanted the two guys arrested for kidnapping and the cops laughed and said big guy had every right to do what he did. I'm serious though. I want something done. My friend and I were humiliated and our children traumatized especially my 4 yr old son (the one that pissed hisself bc wasnt allowed to go to BR). Okay now for my question: Is there anything I can legally do. I would like to sue or something and I looked up false imprisonment and I think thats what happened, but I'm not sure bc the cops were called and we were detained for about 2 hours and we were not interogated or anything.

