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hatfield, I have to disagree with you, at least in part.
The officer was way out of line in his entire line of approach. The officer is primarily at fault.
That said, Fiorino would have been better served by using the approach you suggest.
I just think you, and several others, are letting the officer, and PPD's policy, off the hook way too easily. They have a policy in place that is clearly designed to harass open carriers. The directive has been published by several sources. The officer drew down on a citizen who was committing no crime; that is much worse than the officer's language, which wasn't good.
In Fiorino's place, I'd sue PPD, the city of Philadelphia, and if possible, the sergeant as an individual (because immunity may not apply if an officer goes outside policy, and I'm not so sure the drawing of his weapon in the circumstances will have been covered).
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