What are my rights if I was pulled over by an officer who didn’t give me a reason as to why and then searched my car without my permission after searching me?

What are my rights if I was pulled over by an officer who didn’t give me a reason as to why and then searched my car without my permission after searching me?

Another officer pulls up and also searches me. I wait there patiently to then get arrested by another arriving officer who tells me I have a suspended license which is false since my license will expire next year. After being put in the police car I was then told I’m being arrested for a knife that was found in my car which is no longer then four inches which makes that knife legal to carry. I was then told that it was a gravity knife and because of it was put in a cell for the first time in my life. With all the facts stated am I able to sue them?

Asked on December 6, 2013 under Criminal Law, New York

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