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Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Tuesday, October 21st, 2014 4:09pm PDT - promote requested by kulpims.

Interesting.
Apparently the video starts with the performer telling the officer the law that allows him to be there, performing, and accepting donations. 1050.6 section C. After reading the law that clearly stated he may play there, the officer decides 'fuck that' and arrests him for 'loitering'...a charge only dropped when the video went viral.
The officer is being 'retrained', but I think he needs to be prosecuted for 1)false arrest and 2)battery with a deadly weapon (the guitar) and perhaps even 3)damaging private property. We need his name though, so he can be publically ridiculed and ostracized for being a dickhead bully, and not hired by any 'security' company when he looses his job.

The cop called in for backup after a severe and unsustainable bout of cognitive dissonance (reading aloud in his own voice the law that proved he was wrong).

Unable to process this information because his fragile concept of self is shattered publicly and captured on video to the cheers of the crowd, but yet also trying to reason with the madness in his mind, he decides that "ejecting" is better than "arresting". Fully knowing that both solutions are wrong.

Fearful, because his brain is scrambling like an egg in a blender, he moves far away from what is really just a man standing alone singing. Moves away because somehow he is unable, unsafe as an NYPD cop, to handle a man armed only with a guitar and a voice. He needs backup.

With all of his bravery, and hand on his holster, he marches back to the musician and takes the guitar away, but the song keeps on playing.

Literally unable (4:37) to physically affect an arrest or "ejection" against a completely docile and non-resisting "suspect", our embarrassed crime fighter lets everyone know it's none of their business.

But don't worry, help arrives at last! (6:03) And now officer illiterate can be a tough guy hero in front of his cop buddies and manhandle the dangerous singer. See? He didn't even need their help. He was just biding his time for the right opportunity to capture that criminal guitar player.