So it's OK with you for cops to break the law by false arrest and intimidation just because you and they think a citizen licensed to carry a gun under the laws of the state shouldn't be allowed to exercise the rights granted by that license unless you and they think it's acceptable? When did you and the Norfolk cops get the authority to decide what the law should be and act accordingly?
In this case the victim of police brutality and harassment was in compliance with a state law which specifically overrides any local law concerning the carrying of firearms. If you and the Sheriff don't like that law why don't you lobby the VA legislature to change the law instead of allowing cops to use Nazi-type tactics to intimidate citizens in the hope that intimidation will do what the city or county can't legally do under current VA law? What happened there was nothing less than police harassment of the worst kind. The cops knew they had no legal authority to arrest the armed man, they just hoped to intimidate ALL licensed citizens from going armed in their bailiwick.
If there is any justice in VA the Sheriff's office will be forced to recompense the victim of his thugs in a large enough amount that his department will abandon Gestapo intimidation tactics and obey the law they are supposed to be enforcing. Nothing is more likely to breed hatred and disrespect for LE officers than totally unjustifiable thuggish behavior like this against law abiding citizens. Cops who know the law and violate it anyway should be held more accountable for their acts than the ordinary citizens who they are supposed to be protecting, not harassing.
Where, in any of my comments, did I defend the police actions, or say anything near what you are talking about?