[Grut]

He said plainclothes police - not undercover officers - regularly attend protests to maintain order and stop crimes in progress, not to spy.

Pretty limp. Maintaining order and stopping crimes -- the 'police presence' -- is the purview of the uniformed branch. And before FR's cop groupies get in an uproar, consider police-not-dressed-as-police at an abortion clinic protest.

[festus]

So how long you been an anarchist ?