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Cry uncontrollably while offering to wash the officer’s patrol car.

Better answer: Be respectful to the arresting officer and yet invoke your Constitutional rights – your “privilege against self incrimination” (5th Amendment), and your “right to counsel” (6th Amendment)…and how do you do that? Simply inform the officer that you would like to speak with your lawyer. If the officer persists in questioning you after you’ve already invoked your right to counsel, simply respond the same way you did initially, repeating ...

Be prepared to get yourself shot, or to die in a violent, horrific crash, even if you do have a fast car.

Better answer: The crime of “Fleeing or Eluding a Police Officer” was just upgraded to a felony, punishable by prison!!

Tell ’em you don’t know this Miranda dude.

Better answer: Invoke them, as just advised, regardless of guilt or innocence, and simply state that you would like to speak with an attorney; and yet be very respectful of the officers. They are in very stressful and dangerous jobs, and they need no additional aggravation or disrespect, even if making a false or mistaken arrest. If you witnessed someone else commit the crime, then that may be the only exception to this ...

Plenty. Title 42 of the United States Code, Section 1983, allows you to file a civil rights suit for redress of your civil rights violations. “Excessive force” is a civil rights violation, just as “false arrest” is another.