The guy taunts police. Right?
He exercises his rights. I would not say that he taunts police. They could easily just allow him to go about his business. He is a known quantity.
They do not want to be bound by the law, so they arrest him.
He is trying to make our rights real rather than only words on paper.
If you look on the video, it is clear that the police officer is simply lying when he says that he is “terrified”.
I suspect that the courts will side with the police, but I also think that Leonard scrupulously documented everything so that the police had better play by the rules. If they “lose” the NFA paperwork, for example, they may regret it.
NOT arbitrarily stop and interrogate citizens because they are exercising their natural rights and not disturbing the peace in any way. From what I experienced, they did not care. Just stop you, License-Registration-Proof_of_Insurance -and they had a quick new ticket/citation to present at the end of shift and new fines flowing into the government coffers.
Which IS, after all, the real reason why they write them...
No. If I were to “taunt” police I would find one and belittle him. I was confronted and detained by these cops, not the other way around.