Probable cause is based upon the knowledge available to them at the time, in good-faith. That cuts both ways.
If those cops ‘thought’ they had pc, they’re too stupid to be cops.
Hence the “problem for them”, and the apology.
40 posted on 04/08/2020 6:50:59 AM PDT by lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)