Police officer last saturday was laid the rest. Today near dallas texas. Jordan edwards was an honor student and an athlete. The fired officer, who shot the boy, turned himself in on friday to face murder charges. Roy oliver was released on 300,000 bail. Olivers family says the army veteran may suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder after serving in iraq. Heres tony dokoupil. Reporter a funeral was held today for 15yearold jordan edwards at the mesquite Friendship Baptist church. His grieving family asked for a pause in protest over his death. We need time to exhale, the family said in a statement, to allow jordans death to be our own loss before we share this loss with the world. On friday the Dallas County Sheriffs Department arrested and charged roy oliver with the boys murder. He was a sixyear veteran of the Balch Springs police force. Im saying after reviewing the video that i dont believe that reporter oliver fired a rifle into the back of a vehicle. Edwards was struck in the
By mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening, and thanks for joining us. Before public campaigning in frances president ial election ended at midnight, the high stakes contest between centrist Emmanuel Macron and farright candidate Marine Le Pen suffered a kind of disruption familiar to americans the frontrunner was hacked. While france itself votes tomorrow, voting is already under way in french territories overseas and among french citizens living abroad, including 120,000 here in the United States. Just before those first voters went to the polls today, macron confirmed hed been targeted by a massive hacking attack after thousands of Campaign Em
Sb4, plus the chair of the Mexican American legislative caucus in the texas house of representatives. Then we speak to a student at Rutgers University who faces possible deportation. Homeconsider america my number without a doubt. I have been living in the same house for 15 to 16 years. I do consider this my home. Growing up undocumented was challenging because there is a lot of fear and theres also a lot of uncertainty. Amy at the time of this broadcast, Carimer Andujar is headed to an interview with ice. And then we look at how the federal Communications Commission under President Trump is rolling back limits on media consolidation and Net Neutrality. One of the big winners could be the protrump rightwing Network Sinclair broadcasting which is attempted to become the nations largest broadcaster. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Former acting attorney general sally yates testified to the Senate Judici
But the states Big City Police chiefs all oppose the law. We will speak to a city councilman in austin who was arrested at a sitin against sb4, plus the chair of the Mexican American legislative caucus in the texas house of representatives. Then we speak to a student at Rutgers University who faces possible deportation. Homeconsider america my number without a doubt. I have been living in the same house for 15 to 16 years. I do consider this my home. Growing up undocumented was challenging because there is a lot of fear and theres also a lot of uncertainty. Amy at the time of this broadcast, Carimer Andujar is headed to an interview with ice. And then we look at how the federal Communications Commission under President Trump is rolling back limits on media consolidation and Net Neutrality. One of the big winners could be the protrump rightwing network sisinclair broadcasting which is attempted to become the nations largest broadcaster. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy
In the choiceng 16 election. We will get the latest with marcy wheeler. ,hen we remember Javier Valdez who died monday in mexico after he was dragged out of his car and shot 12 times less than a block from the office of the newspaper he founded. Live is dangerous to be a and to do journalism and tread and invisible line trauma the bad guys drawn by the bad guys. This is what most of the country is living through. Amy we will hear Javier Valdez in his own words and speak to anabel hernandez, another mexican journalist who has also faced Death Threats for her reporting on mexicos drug trade. And we will look at how more than 50 farm workers here in california were recently exposed to highly toxic pesticide, whose use was recently greenlighted by the epa in one of the agencys first decisions since donald trump took office. All of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are broadcasting from los angeles. The depar