police released footage showing the fatal shooting of a 25-year-old black man jalen walker. and later this hour, an update on wnba star brittney griner reaching out with a personal plea to president biden. we begin this morning with yet another community reeling and searching for answers after a mass shooting. hundreds of people gathered along a street in highland park, illinois, a half hour north of chicago. a gunman perched on a nearby roof opened fire seemingly at random. authorities say when the shooting stopped six people were dead. more than three dozen were injured. highland park mayor spoke with nbc s today show about how the community is coping. my greater focus this morning as the sun is rising is how my community is feeling. the unbelievable sadness and shock. this tragedy never should have arrived in our doorsteps and as a small town, everybody knows somebody who was affected by this directly. investigators say the gunman fled after dropping the weapon and
Waves of latinos came to americas heartland and they worked in its factories, farms, and Service Industries and they turned chicagoland into chicagolandia. So im here to find out what kind of impact decades of latinx influence have had on the windy city. And im gonna have some amazing food, because you know that happens a lot on this show. Its right here in my contract. Feed john. [tracks clacking] [upbeat horndriven music] [trills] [upbeat music] im here on chicagos west side in la villita, or Little Village, where theres one of the largest Mexican American communities in the midwest. The mexicans who settled here came looking for work and ended up creating the secondbiggest economy in chicago right here on 26th street, the mexican magnificent mile. With over hundreds of shops, i needed a local guide, so im meeting up with hollywood legend and chicago native, michael pena. You might have seen him in his breakout role in crash. You talking about that bullet that came through your windo
Line. We will get the latest on the autoworkers strike as donald trump heads to detroit today. But first, to the u. S. Mexico border where an increasing number of migrants seeking refuge are crossing into the United States. The city of el paso only has so many resources and we have come to what we call a breaking point right now. Amy we will speak to the head of the Border Network for human rights and Democratic Congress member chuy garcia who was born in mexico. America is nothing without immigrants, plain and simple. It is who we are as a nation and it is about damn time we give immigrants the respect and the dignity they deserve. I make a plus, we will look at the u. S. Governments landmark lawsuit against amazon and the growing democratic calls for new jersey senator bob menendez to resign after he was indicted for bribery. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President biden became the first sitting u
Line. We will get the latest on the autoworkers strike as donald trump heads to detroit today. But first, to the u. S. Mexico border where an increasing number of migrants seeking refuge are crossing into the United States. The city of el paso only has so many resources and we have come to what we call a breaking point right now. Amy we will speak to the head of the Border Network for human rights and Democratic Congress member chuy garcia who was born in mexico. America is nothing without immigrants, plain and simple. It is who we are as a nation and it is about damn time we give immigrants the respect and the dignity they deserve. I make a plus, we will look at the u. S. Governments landmark lawsuit against amazon and the growing democratic calls for new jersey senator bob menendez to resign after he was indicted for bribery. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President biden became the first sitting u
Come as early as this week. We will talk about whats in the bill and look at how 40 graduate student walkouts are planned around the country to protest a measure in the house budget bill that reclassify tuition waivers as taxable income, amounting to a pay cut of thousands of dollars. Then p President Trump attemptso insult massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren by referring to her as pocahontas during a white house ceremony honoring navajo code tatalkers fofor ther service during world warar ii. Pres. Trump we have a representative in congress who they say was here a long time ago. They call her pocahontas. But you know what . I like you because you are special. You are special people. Amy we will talk to cherokee lawyer and writer Mary Kathryn Nagle. She will share the story of pocahontas. And we will look at the case of olivia lone bear, yet another native American Woman who has gone missing in the oil fields of north dakota will stop then do honduras where tensions are rising as th