And few people would hesitate to protest if items rung up by supermarket cashiers exceeded the correct sales prices.
Vremya, state TV's flagship evening news show, relegated news of the protests to item nine of 10, and, in a report lasting around 30 seconds, said less than 2,000 people had shown up in Moscow.
In a letter that had urged Governor Underwood to veto the measure, W. Michael McCabe, a regional administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency, protested several items, including the compensation change.
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One protester walked by a camera, gestured obscenely and shouted, "Digitize this!" Other protesters wore gas masks, Groucho Marx glasses and other items to protest the FaceIt scanning system the police are using in Ybor City, a neighborhood that attracts thousands of people on weekend nights.
A dozen or so tents were mostly empty except for simple bedding, household items and protest signs.
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