Know Your Rights, Subway Platform Performers!

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 22, 2014

A video of a guitarist on a subway platform being arrested by a police officer is making the rounds on social media (it has over 820,000 hits as of this morning!). Matthew Christian, co-founder of the street performer advocacy group BUSK-NY, explains why the officer was wrong to demand a permit and offers advice to platform performers on how to stay in line with the law.

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