Developer Stole My Fence. Police Said That's Fine?

Location: North Carolina

Me and a developer don't like each other. Developer is building a junk duplex next to my house. I turned him into the city for code violations. That escalated and, we don't like each other...

There is a tiny lot next to my house. I believe I own it, but that's a whole different legal question. I put a fence on it. Fence was there for a year.

Previous owner of my house shows up at my door. Claims he owns the little lot next to the house and wants to sell it. My deed says I own the lot. The tax accessors office says I own the lot. I have plenty of evidence that says I own the lot. There are many mistakes with the deed recordings going back 30 years and it's made a cluster fuck of who actually owns the lot.

Previous owner is a sketchy fuck. I tell him to go away, he ends up selling the lot to the developer. Yes this is fraud. There's a whole other legal story here that is not relevant. A court has not ruled on who owns the lot yet.

Developer shows up with a crew and removes my fence and throws it into a dumpster. Side note: my dogs were outside and removing the fence gave them access to run down the road. I call the police. Developer shows the officer a quit claim from the previous owner signing over his claim to the developer. Quite claim hadn't been recorded yet. I show the officer that I too have a quit claim from a different owner (there's a very long other story here that's not relevant). The officer says to me that it's the developers property and he is allowed to take my fence down. He ignored my claim to the property and said that it's a civil matter on who owns it. That's totally fair, but I tell him that the developer removed my property. His response was to shrug and say he's allowed to. I argued with him that it's theft and they had no right to take my property. That went no where and in the end I said I wanted to speak to his supervisor. Supervisor argued with me and repeated the same thing. That the developer has the right to remove my property because my property is on the developers land. Supervisor completely ignored that I too have the exact same proof as the developer as to who owns the land.

People are misunderstanding my question. I'm not asking for advice on how to prove I own the lot. That issue is being dealt with.

What I don't understand is how one party can claim they own something with no proof and proceed to take everything on the property. How is this different then if I go to my my neighbors property and take things out of their front yard but I tell the cop it's my house so I can take it?

A little side note that I learned afterwards. The city road has an unusually huge right of way. Which means the property line for this parcel starts 30ft from the road. My fence was about 10 ft from the road which means it was on city property.

Little more info:

Quitclaim deeds are junk, I know this, the developer knows this, we both had one claiming we own the land.

The developer left some expensive building materials in the same location as my fence was, only its directly in front of a property I absolutely do own. If I were to go and take those materials, how would I not be arrested for theft. (I'm not going to do that and I won't take your word for it that I wouldn't be arrested)