The police were a trifle ignorant, but was being "right" worth being handcuffed to a pole and put in leg-irons? Yes. "These bills are legal tender for all debt public and private"
They were down right stupid. They should have called the bank. Or anyone over the age of thirty.
Are there no computers with internet access at Best Buy or the police station? If they did a quick search they might have found an official list of legal currencies in circulation from the
US Treasury. Of course I guess the cops were itching to give those handcuffs a try.
Amazing. All those people at that Best Buy, all the customers, all the clerks, all the cops; not one of them has heard of a $2 bill?