Had words with police force briefly at opening of bar and ran, in a colourful way (9)

'had' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with communicating as well as being past participle verbs.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I don't see?

'words with police force briefly at opening of bar and ran in a colourful way' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'words' could be 'squabble' (squabble is a kind of words) and 'squabble' is found in the answer.
A single letter 'd' remains which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

Can you help me to learn more?