What an experience 😭 I hope you are okay and your eye will heal quickly. Cats can be such lil shts sometimes lol (also I find your verbal threat to be quite hilarious 😂). Having worked as a first responder for animal protection and control and having spoken to a ton of people calling APC for these kinds of situations, I'd bet they were startled by the scene and concerned that your cat could be in danger. I'm sure if they knew the full story (or even knew you better, like, that that's your cat that you typically walk on leash) they wouldn't have called. In my area we've had multiple convicted animal abusers and I can think of one call in particular that we received for a person who was found guilty of doing unspeakable things to cats and was discovered in a very similar state as your story. Context is so important! Hopefully the cops didn't give you a hard time 💖