As a Virginia Beach native who spent hundreds of weekends at Lynnhaven Mall, I feel qualified to say that cops seizing Abercrombie & Fitch’s advertisements is yet another ridiculous example of local puritans subjecting the rest of the community to their crazy standards.

Check out this link, authored for W&M ACS, for a brief legal history of Virginia Beach’s mission to become a “family-friendly” destination at the expense of the First Amendment. I think it adds a considerable amount of color to this “black-and-white” issue.