amy: your victory against byron brown.lly upset the democratic establishment, and why you think your messageesoned. ina: we were out in e streets last summe protesting aer the murder of george floyd, and w watched buffalo police push a 75-yr-old mato the ground, bleeding from his ear. theesponsout of r city leadership was n only disappointing, it was embarrassing. theountry watched that on national news, and our mayor this -- dended the actions of his pole department. he totally ignored the ces r justice from protesters, mmunity membe, from our own gornor who compelled him to put in pce reforms in order to get state entitlemts and fding. that was the only reason there was action taken on behalf of the city of buffalo to address our policing issue. those reforms have been lackluster at best. i felt personally like he would ignore thousandsf people in the streets, the summer before last and that heould also ignore a campaign that was bng speaeaded by those peopl i don't feel like i won the democratic primary. i feel like the

a socialist, stunned the democratic establishment in june by beating four-term incumbent mayor byron brownthe democratic primary. despite this, brown is now waging a write-in campaign in the november 2 general election, and other prominent new york democrats like governor kathy hochul and congressmember brian higgins, who represents buffalo, have refused to back walton. as has the new york democratic party. india walton appeared on democracy now! earlier this week. >> buffalo is 65% democrat. anyone who runs a succeful campaign for mayor here pretty much has to be democrat, but the values of our current administration are not the values that i believe democrats hold, which is putting people, workers, and families first. amy: you can see the rest of our interview with india walton at democracynow.org. and those are some of the headlines this is democracy now, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in georgia, jury selection is beginning this week in the trial of three white men accused of murdering ahmaud arbery, an unarmed 25-year-old black man who was chased down and