Howdy Lockster!
I highlighted specific portions of your response to my reply in order to address those specific points. Let's start with the first one.
You turn to discover an officer with a drawn pistol. Regardless of where it was pointed, it was both a direct and overt threat to you in particular, and public safety in general. Cops have a history of accidental discharge too. It is a basic rule that you do not draw your weapon unless you are prepared to fire it. You were going about your law abiding business only to be confronted with a threat against your life and liberty. Even with the weapon pointed at the ground (I assume pavement or concrete) an accidental richochet would bounce straight up and hit.... YOU!!! Unacceptable behavior.
If you do not like the word lawsuit, I understand. Call it what it really is, and what the founding fathers called it: Redress of grievances. That is the Constitutional method for dealing with violation of your rights. Redress of grievances is to hold the government (and its agents) responsible for such violations. It is the responsibility of the citizen thus abused to exercise their right to petion the government for redress of such grievance. Otherwise, it is tantamont to defacto abdication of those rights by tacit consent (they got away with it, ergo will continue to usurp such rights).
the next point is that law enforcement officers are oathbound to support and defend the constitution of the United States and whatever jurisdiction they serve. They have sworn an oath before God to defend your rights, not abuse them. God may hold them accountable in the next life, but you must act in defense of your rights in this one.
Finally, how many other citizens did they stop that day to determine whether they might be a feleon? Just you? Because you were armed against assault by a felon? Well, you were feloniously (in my opinion) threatened. So who's the felon at the outset? In addition, you were not engaged in the commission of a crime, so where is their RAS to confront you, let alone with drawn weapons? Considering they never learned your identity, they never did figure out whether you were a felon or not. Therefore, the whole stop was silly, a waste of everybody's time, an infringement on your rights and a threat against your life (drawn weapon).
When police officers violate the law, there is no law. Hold them to account.
And it is terrific you got the recording. Way to go amigo!
Best of luck and continued happy OC'ing and safe travels.
Blessings,
M-Taliesin