Ok, but I’m going to go out on a limb and assume it wasn’t some exotic that you might be able to argue about installing a front plate, so my point remains the same.
I laugh every time I see a post about police “making stuff up” from someone with no front plate, tints, obnoxiously loud exhaust/stereo or some other pointless attention drawing illegal mod. When you break those laws, laws that are so easy to follow, police do pay a lot more attention to you.