Then to honduras. We are gathered here today to demand an independent investigation of her murder to end u. S. Military aid to honduras and to stand against the coup in 2009 that led to these events. Protesters are continuing to push the Obama Administration to stop funding the honduran military following the assassination of indigenous activist Berta Caceres. Well get the latest. Then, immigration agents target undocumented students heading to high school. I just wanted to express how devastating the event is to families here at Riverside High School to have wildin detained. There is so much fear and are committed to because, unfortunately, he is not the only child they have detained. Amy we will look at the case of Wildin Acosta who was detained in january as he prepared to drive to high school in durham, North Carolina. Four months later, he remains locked up, facing deportation to honduras. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In brazil, a key figure in the interim government has resigned after explosive new transcripts revealed how he plotted to oust resilient brazilian president Dilma Rousseff in order to end a corruption investigation that was targeting him. The transcripts, published by brazils largest newspaper, folha de sao paulo, document a conversation in march, just weeks before brazils lower house voted in favor of impeaching president rousseff. Romero juca, who was then a senator but became a planning minister after rousseffs ouster, was speaking with a former oil executive, sergio machado. Both men have been the subject of the socalled car wash investigation over money corruptionand stay and corruption at the statecontrolled oil firm petrobras. In the conversation, the men agree that ousting rousseff would be the only way to end the corruption probe. Juca notes the impeachment would end the pressure from the media and other sectors to continue the car wash investigation. He also says he has spoken with military commanders, who are supporting the plan, and who are monitoring the landless workers movement, which supports the policies of rousseffs party. And juca also says he has secured involvement by justices of the brazilian Supreme Court, saying there are only a small number of justices he has not had access to. Writing for the intercept, pulitzer prizewinning journalist Glenn Greenwald said the transcripts provide proof for virtually every suspicion and accusation impeachment opponents have long expressed about those plotting to remove dilma from office. On monday, the planning minister said his comments were taken out of context but he would step , down. As brazils new interim foreign minister visited argentina, protesters gathered in buenos aires to condemn rousseffs ouster as a coup. This is a coup which has been made legitimate by the Brazilian National congress, but it is not legitimate. It is illegal. It is a coup to put those corrupt criminals in power. Amy a Baltimore Police officer has been acquitted on all charges for his role in the arrest of freddie gray who died of spinal injuries last year after he was arrested and transported in a police van. Officer edward nero faced misdemeanor charges of seconddegree assault, reckless endangerment, and two counts of misconduct in office. A total of six officers were charged four were directly charged in grays death. Judge Barry Williams handed down the verdict in a bench trial on monday, ruling that the state has not met its burden to prove neros guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. The ruling was met with little surprise from the community in a case that many said was the states weakest. Gray family attorney bill murphy reacted to the news. Is they areation reacting to this the same way they reacted to everything else. Reacting calmly. The judge gave detailed reasons for why he thought the evidence was insufficient and why the laws did not compel conviction in this case. You could not have asked for a better judge to do it. He was the local prosecutor here for many years. He was a federal prosecutor of corrupt cops for many years. In needham is pretty convincingly he was not and would not be swayed by any element of the communities preconceived notions about what the result both to be. Amy the Supreme Court has overturned the death sentence of an africanamerican man sentenced to die by an allwhite jury in georgia. Timothy Tyrone Foster was convicted of killing a white woman in 1986. Records revealed prosecutors marked the names of africanamerican jury candidates with a b and highlighted in green. The race was circled on questionnaires and all were placed on a list marked definite nos. In one case, an investigator hired by the prosecution wrote if it comes down to having to pick one of the black jurors, might be ok. In striking down timothy Tyrone Fosters death sentence, Supreme Court chief Justice John Roberts concluded the focus on race in the prosecutions file plainly demonstrates a concerted effort to keep black prospective jurors off the jury. Foster will likely face a reach while. The Supreme Courts decision in fosters favor was seven to one, with the sole dissenting voice coming from the courts only africanamerican Justice Clarence thomas. Yemen, isis has claimed responsibility for an explosion that killed at least 40 yemeni army recruits in the Southern City of aden. The attack it recruits as they lined up to enlist. Capital of the saudi backed yemeni administration, which is fighting houthi rebels. A british main cluster bomb has been found in the yemeni village, bolstering reports the saudi have had led u. S. Backed Coalition Fighting the houthis has been dropping the weapons. Amnesty International Found the unexploded on in northern yemen. Cluster bombs contain bomblets which fan out over a large area and often fail to explode until civilians pick them up later. Greek auorities have begun clearing thousands of stranded refugees from a makeshift camp along the border with macedonia. At least 8400 people have been camped at idomeni after macedonia restricted and then shut down its border. Refugees have sought to remain in the area, hoping to cross with smugglers or wait for the border to reopen so they can continue their route to other parts of europe. But earlier today, hundreds of riot police descended on the camp to evict them and transport them to processing stations further south. President obama sought to drum up support for the Transpacific Partnership trade deal during his visit to vietnam. The pact among 12 pacific rim countries, including vietnam, appears unlikely to pass the u. S. Congress before the november election. All three president ial candidates have opposed it among a wave of public opposition. Among those who say it is at the expense of health and environmental regulations. But obama said he believed it would one day pass. Moreover i support cbp because of its important strategic benefits. Vietnam will be less dependent on any one trading partner and enjoy broader ties with more partners, including the United States. Amy later this week, president obama heads to japan. He will become the first sitting u. S. President to visit hiroshima, where the u. S. Dropped an atomic bomb toward the end of world war ii. The governor of okinawa, which houses about twothirds of the 50,000 u. S. Troops currently stationed in japan, has requested a meeting with obama. The request by takeshi onaga, who was elected on a platform of removing a u. S. Airbase from the island, comes after last weeks arrest of former marine for the murder of a japanese woman. For decades, okinawa residents have called for the expulsioof u. S. Troops in large part over a history of sexual assaults. The governor spoke on monday. Over the last several years, we have heard nearly 100 times that will be a full enforcement of discipline and a thorough plan to prevent this from happening again but the reality is is that nothing has changed. Amy that was the okinawa governor. In austria, a former Green Party Leader has defeated his farright opponent by a narrow margin in the president ial race. Alexander van der bellen won 50. 3 of the vote, defeating farright candidate Norbert Hofer who won 49. 7 . Hofer ran on an antimigrant platform and would have become the first farright head of state elected in europe since 1945. Back in the u. S. , the Democratic National committee has allowed vermont senator Bernie Sanders to appoint five members to the committee that authors the partys platform. Democrats said clinton was allowed to pick six while sanders picked five, based on the number of popular votes they had each won to date. Dnc chair Debbie Wasserman schultz will choose four members. Sanders chose the scholar and Racial Justice activist cornel west, leading environmentalist and 350. Org cofounder bill mckibben, native american activist deborah parker, minnesota Congressmember Keith Ellison who chairs the progressive caucus, and palestinian rights activist and scholar james zogby. Attorneys for an indiana woman sentenced to 20 years in prison for what she says was a miscarriage have asked the Indiana Court of appeals to overturn her sentence. Last year purvi patel was convicted of feticide and neglect of a dependent, becoming the first person in u. S. History sentenced to prison for what the state said was an attempt to end her own pregnancy. Patel arrived at a hospital, leading and later acknowledged , disposing of her stillborn fetus in a dumpster. Prosecutors accused her of taking abortioninducing pills, even though there was no evidence of drugs found in her system, and used a discredited float test to argue the fetus was born alive. In a statement, National Advocates for pregnant women said we support ms. Patel because we believe that there is no point in pregnancy when a woman should lose her civil and human rights. We know that arresting or bringing criminal charges against people for ending a pregnancy, experiencing a miscarriage or stillbirth, or for being pregnant and giving birth, puts all pregnant people at risk, they said. And the leading antinuclear advocate Michael Mariotte has died at the age of 63. Mariotte served as executive director of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service for three decades, leading successful campaigns to defeat two Nuclear Facilities and uphold restrictions on the transportation of radioactive waste. He also cofounded the newspaper the newsper that became the Washington City paper. Mariotte died of pancreatic cancer at home in kensington, maryland on may 16. , and those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We begin todays show in baltimore, where a Police Officer was acquitted on all charges for his role in the arrest of freddie gray who died of spinal injuries last year after he was arrested and transported in a police van. Officer edward nero faced misdemeanor charges of seconddegree assault, reckless endangerment, and two counts of misconduct in office. A total of six officers were charged four were directly charged in grays death. Judge Barry Williams handed down the verdict in a bench trial on monday, ruling that the state has not met its burden to prove neros guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. The ruling was met with little surprise from the community in a case that many said was the states weakest, however a few protesters gathered outside of the courthouse and expressed disappointment in the verdict. This is not right. That boys back got broke. He is dead. If something happened to my son, i put myself in that families shoe. That is not right. The verdict is not correct. You should have gotten something. Somebody has got to be responsible for that murder. Amy freddie gray died in april from a spinal injury sustained while being transported in the back of a police van. Grays family and attorney say his voice box was crushed and his spine was 80 severed at his neck. Nero was one of six officers charged in grays death. Officer William Porter was the first one to go to trial, charged with involuntary manslaughter, seconddegree assault, reckless endangerment, and misconduct in office. In december, judge williams declared a mistrial in porters case after jurors were unable to reach a verdict on any of the charges after three days of deliberation. Now all eyes are on the upcoming trial of officer caesar goodson, the driver of the police van, and the only officer charged with murder in grays death. Four for more were joined by , gray family attorney billy murphy who recently won a 6. 4 million settlement from the city of baltimore for the family of freddie gray. Also with us is dr. Heber brown, pastor of Pleasant HopeBaptist Church and member of baltimore united for change. We welcome you both to democracy now pastorto begin with heber brown. Your response to the equal . Acquittal . As you say, it is no surprise to those of us who recognize that justice in the courts, especially for black folk in this country, is oftentimes more marathon then sprint. And so people here are looking at ways to continue organizing in our local communities. Were not waiting with bated breath for the decision of any judge or jury to determine what justice looks like or should look like in our communities. Amy billy murphy, youre the attorney for the gray family. What was their reaction . Theirs was the same as it was to the hung jury and the runup to these trials, and that is that justice did not have award tilting or not guilty, justice is the result of a fair price worth both sides present all of the evidence and the judge makes as here ruling as capable of doing by applying the law and finding the facts. As long as that was done, the family is satisfied because they did not put their fingers on the scale here. They did not think in advance i want that officer to be found guilty. Rather, they let the system do its job. And they had confidence in the system because that a black judge who was exceptionally qualified because he was a former prosecutor of Police Misconduct for the federal government for six years. And they believed both sides are capable of presenting their case, and they left it up to that designated representative of our community, judge williams , to make the decision. Now, it would be different if there was a lack of confidence in him as the process, but so far the community is exceptionally happy with judge williams handling of the use cases. Therefore, confident he is able and willing to administer justice. He also showed the community he was not willing to be swayed by any segment of the community in determining for himself whether or not based on all of the evidence the officers are guilty or not guilty. For that, we all applaud him because judges should be above the pressures of the community. And this is our turn to put the pressure on the system. And we dont want to be in a position where that pressure causes a miscarriage of justice, rather, we want everyone to play their normal role in the normal fashion with Exceptional People in charge of the decision. Amy after the not guilty verdict was handed down in the case against officer nero, baltimore bloc, a grassroots coalition, tweeted we do not believe it was mosbys intent to seek justice for freddie gray; truly doing so would mean upsetting the status quo in which she is all too comfortable, and it would mean risking her offices relationship with the corrupt and brutal Baltimore Police department. The type of illegal arrest that led to freddie grays death is the same type of arrest that leads to mosbys office prosecuting people like freddie gray every day. Pastor heber brown, your thoughts . Well, i think that is an example of the growing discontent with not only the legal system, but all the systems here in baltimore. Mr. Murphy is an expert jurist here and has knowledge of the inner workings of how the legal system works, but for everyday people, for lay people like myself who dont have that level of expertise, there is a great frustration with the case of this case and the results of the case as well as the especially when you consider, amy, those who were charged in vandalizing stores were convicted with great deliver speed but it seems like those who were involved or connected in the death of freddie gray, the process slows down to usand so i think that statement is an example of what i spoke of earlier. People more and more are saying, enough with looking to this legal system or the city hall to provide justice for us, we can work ourselves. So it baltimore united for change involved, organizing and building for power. What that means on the ground is, establishing black like organizations, supporting black led organizations from Public Policy think tanks to freedom schools to solidarity economies and cooperative economics and even an alternative food system. We are taking the role and responsibility to define what justice should look like for us instead of waiting for the systems to tell us what justice should look like. Amy while none of the six officers have been found guilty in the death of freddie gray, allen bullock, an 18yearold who turned himself in for participating in last years uprising, plead