Upworthy: Cop doesn’t understand how law works, arrests guy who does for something totally legal by Adam Mordecai:<\/p>\n
That awkward moment when your average citizen knows more about the law than the police do.
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Andrew Kalleen, 30, a street musician, was playing in the subway station, which is totally legal (as long as you aren’t in the way \u2014 he was against the wall). A police officer disagreed.<\/p>\n
Andrew had been stopped by police on six previous occasions, had gotten two previous tickets, and decided he’d had enough. Andrew told him the number of the law. The police officer then read the law that protected Andrew out loud. And didn’t understand that the law was on Andrew’s side.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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