Places of employment are a dictatorship with strong coercion to behave as though you do not have freedom.
(I have to caveat this thing I say all the time, "a job is like slavery" because someone always pops in to let me know I could leave my job any time... )
Cops did not need to be in her house in the first place. They refused to investigate what she called them for (suspicious person in her yard). That should have been the end of the interaction. They had no business inside the house.