Of course they did.
James O’Keefe reported on the 2016 presidential campaign in his book, American Pravda:”the Democrat party has a history of using homeless people to cause disorder. The practice is called “bird-dogging.”
In 2016, a Dem operative told an undercover journalist how bird-dogging works.
“....we have mentally ill people that we pay to do s-—,” he said, unaware he was being recorded.