November 30, 2018 – Bridge Agents

Four Officers Arrested for Assaulting Undercover Cop at Protest

November 30, 2018 Bridge Agents

(Sputnik) – The indictment follows an investigation conducted by the FBI. The slain 24-year-old, Anthony Lamar Smith, was shot five times by Stockley. Police recovered a gun from Smith’s car, but found only Stockley’s DNA on it, leading many to believe that the firearm was planted. One hundred and forty people were mass arrested on October 3, 2017, after Stockley was found not guilty on charges of first-degree murder. The group included protesters, reporters and an undercover police officer. Protests were held in the city for days surrounding the verdict. The officer, named in the indictment as “L.H.,” had been in the department for 22…

It’s Never ‘Just the Immigrants’

November 30, 2018 Bridge Agents

(FPIF) – The Republican pre-election strategy of exploiting “the caravan” was irredeemably ugly. It’s hard to say what was worse: the shameless and farcical framing of a helpless stream of people as a national security threat, or the president’s off-hand suggestion that these people might actually be funded by the prime villain of most anti-Semitic conspiracy theories: George Soros. Few commentators have failed to point out the obvious effects of this gutter-politics playbook: the debasement of public discourse on immigration policy; the wink-and-nudge of encouragement offered to the most sinister…

Why Racism is So Hard to Define and Even Harder to Understand

November 30, 2018 Bridge Agents

(Conversation) – Today, what can be defined as racism and what cannot has become a matter for debate. Every racist caught in the act, whether it be wrongly accusing a black child of sexual assault or running over and killing a mosque-goer, claims not to be racist. Eric Kaufmann, a prominent professor at a London university, has claimed that “racial self-interest is not racism”. He is joined by others who see talking about race as “unhelpful”, be that from a left-wing perspective that privileges class, or from a conservative one…