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Funeral. he has a mandate to do that bring reform to the department. there's been a string of lawsuits city council action laws that have been passed over the veto of the previous mayor. this mayor ran on a promise to reform the department. he's on very firm ground in saying that i've got to bring change to this department. it's what i promised. it's what the voters of the city asked for. >> i want to remind our viewers this goes back to the eric garner grand jury decision maybe before that with what happened in ferguson. protestors took to the streets for their voices to be heard. now kind of...

Move this trial outside of boston and they got rejected. now, you know massachusetts does not have the death penalty. however, in federal cases this is a state that has handed down -- juries have handed down the death penalty. so it's not out of the question here. >> but there are a lot of people who say a jury in massachusetts would be less likely to give the death penalty than they would in some places they could move to trial. so be careful what you ask for here. evan perez, deborah feyerick, thanks so much. ahead that the hour, there are passenger rights but what about pilot rights? coul...

Welcome back. for the second time police officers are from across the country used the fallen officer's funeral to hold a silent protest against new york city mayor bill de blasio. thousands of officers lined the streets outside the funeral home to honor officer wenjian liu. when de blasio spoke, some officers the turned their backs to the screens just as they did when de blasio spoke for liu's partner ramos. this is the second time we saw this happen in as many weeks. obviously it looks like the relationship really is still strained between the mayor and this police department. >> if you had ...

>> the -- they're restricted by media internally. >> the silent protest that they're showing is to show the unbelievy high level.

Nothing's worked. i think people fundamentally misunderstand the purpose of the sanctions today. the purpose of the sanctions today as opposed to back during the cold war is it serves at leverage and you do the cuban government, as the law does, it's been codified if you open up democratically and if you start to make real democratic progress in cuba the sanks will go away and that's real leverage with the successor government to the castro one when new leadership takes over and all of that is virtually gone now for the most part. >> let me ask you, senator. the white house press secretary tod...