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Good example of the Streisand Effect. This YouTube channel currently has 89 subscribers. Most of their videos have less than a hundred views. Without this attempt by the officer likely nobody would have seen, heard, or cared about some argument over where a banner should or should not be placed.

> Apparently the strategy doesn't work.

Yet. Take-downs are carried out somewhat arbitrarily. The point is that there's no guarantee it will continue to be available.

You can upload it to YouTube, but you can't monetize it.

I've seen some videos of people following officers around with a camera and harassing them trying to get some sort of response, so they can post the video on their Instagram/YouTube and make money from ads.