I'm not going to get into whether I do or don't believe the OP's story.. I will say, there are parts that seem very sketchy, but from what I've seen from posts on here, the US seems A LOT stricter in terms of what happens when police attend to someone with MH. I'm in the UK and have had more 'run ins' with the police (Not about anything criminal) than I can count including section 136's.. only once have I been searched by the police.. other than that I have never been searched and I have never had cuffs put on me or had my phone taken off me. Even when I was in a psychiatric hospital on a section 2 I was allowed my phone. I must say, if I were in the back of a police car, posting on SS would be the LAST thing on my mind as when this has happened in the past I have been extremely distressed.. but just wanted to clarify that you can have your phone and in my experience are rarely even searched and never been cuffed if you are not aggressive in the UK.