I still don't think you have all the information, because this doesn't make sense. Cops (even the Transit variety) don't go around picking fights over things like jaywalking. In your original post, you mentioned her attitude. Based on the description of events that you gave here (including her description of the hurt and stench of jail not leaving her), it would seem that she indeed is a bit of a drama queen. What state is she from? Did her US ID look like it was bought out of the back of a van? A lot of US ID's are garbage and can be easily faked and look like fakes. Perhaps this played a part.
I wasn't there, and I don't know any of the people involved. I have been in this situation a time or two, and I have a pretty good idea of what went down based on the limited information you put here. People who get all offended and switch on the drama any time a cop pulls them over, tend to get a rough ride. Not because the cop gets pissed off back at them, but because it makes it impossible for the cop to establish facts, warranting further investigation. Here is what happened (if my experience tells me anything):
1. Subject (Sub) jay walks on 7th ave, Transit Cop (TC) witnesses.
2. TC makes contact with the Sub, requests ID.
3. Sub starts with drama and attitude. Provides foreign ID. States she is working in Canada. Not in posession of Canadian Docs. TC starts thinking that Immigration might be interested.
4. TC reviews ID card. Questions authenticity. Asks if Sub can provide her Canadian Status Document. More drama ensues, accusations of racism begin.
5. TC determines that he may have been provided with a false ID from a foreign national who may not have status in Canada.
6. TC places Sub in Detention Status (this happens when he has Reasonable Grounds to SUSPECT that the Sub has committed an offence). Sub is read her Charter Rights.
7. Immigration is contacted to verify status. Immigration tells TC that since Sub is a foreign national, she has the right to have her government notified on her behalf (Vienna Convention). TC tells this to Sub.
8. Sub states she wants Counsel and her Govt. to be contacted) Sub is not at all cooperative (does not resist, but does not cooperate).
9. US govt. listens to Sub. She is screaming accusations, etc, etc... US govt representitive has little power to do anything but makes a fuss (that's what they're elected for).
10. After confirming Sub's ID and status in Canada, Immigration becomes disinterested unless a charge will be layed by the TC for a criminal code offence.
11. TC confers with more senior officers and possibly the Crown Prosecutor. Figures that charges are likely to end in acquital. Sub is released without charge. TC likely forgets to write jaywalking ticket, or cuts her a break since she's been through enough already.
12. Sub tells her story to a guy who puts it on Calgary Puck.
13. Internet Battle ensues.
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