I had been on my way home at around 9 pm on my bmx bike, where i live there are always horses going down the street and there tends to be horse poop on the shoulder lanes. I was trying to avoid getting horse shit on me as one does and because the road was dead i just stayed in oncoming rather than going back and forth(the other side has no shoulder). A Delaware state trooper with no lights on was behind me unbeknownst to me, he lit me up and pulled me over. He basically told me that he was going to cuff me while he calls my mom (im a minor). To preface the next part i have to say that because of the area i live and having been robbed previously i carry a knife when im outside, typically its a 2.5 inch folding blade but because i had knocked it off a shelf the hinge got messed up and it wouldn’t stay closed. I was carrying my 5.5 inch fixed blade that was typically reserved for foraging and navigating through the woods until i could get a new legal knife. Now that I’ve explained that part, as i was handcuffed and the officer was behind me, he began to pat me down and obviously felt my knife. I know for a fact it wasn’t visible to through my clothes and i cant think of any reasonable suspicion there could be to search me without proper consent. It was weird to me because i thought that they were supposed to get consent before searching anything.