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Philadelphia police asked federal drug agents to ‘infiltrate’ protests last June, emails show

Critics say the request raises questions about a decades-old policy barring the Philadelphia Police Department from using its own officers to physically infiltrate protests.

Demonstrators protest social injustice by the police at the Philadelphia Museum of Art along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway on Saturday, June 6, 2020.
Demonstrators protest social injustice by the police at the Philadelphia Museum of Art along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway on Saturday, June 6, 2020.Read moreYONG KIM / Staff Photographer