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That still wouldn't be just cause to detain him. Being uncooperative is not a crime.

You don't have to commit a crime to be detained. For that matter you don't have to commit a crime to be arrested either, the police just have to have sufficient cause to believe you've committed a crime and then it's up to the courts. But he was't arrested and he wasn't charged. He was simply detained and that has been done since time immemorial for a variety of reasons. If his civil rights were trampled on he can file suit. Bet he doesn't.

You're right that you don't have to have committed a crime to be detained, but the article states that he was "detained" for an hour and a half. This is not a detention (per the Supreme Court's definition, a detention is limited to about a half hour, and the stop here went 'way beyond this; I'll try to get a cite for the case) but an illegal arrest.

Just because he does not file suit doesn't mean what the cops did was legal.