Please reread Masod’s advice, and the REASONS FOR IT.
In the old days, total silence was good advice. No longer. If you do not tell your story first, trust me, the bad guy will tell his story, and at a minimum, you will lose big civilly.
Remember Michael Brown. All his friends were ready to tell their BS story and the PD did not get the real story out soon enough.
Tell your story, and just that story, then silence....
That was a case of winning a publicity battle on the airwaves, not a courtroom battle.
The legal advice that I always received from lawyer friends was simple.
“Whatever you say, say nothing”.
There is no need for you to explain a thing to a police officer, that’s your lawyer’s job, he’s paid to do that sort of thing.