chrissie ortiz told pix 11 police have been harassing her and her husband. >> 4:00 in the morning.re laying down and my whole room lights up. what is that? it is a police car. they are driving by and putting spotlights in my window. what was that for? >> the head of the new york city police union, patrick lynch, defended the officers involved in garner's death, denying they used a chokehold, which has been banned by the nypd for decades. >> it was not a chokehold. he was a big man, who had to be brought to the ground to be placed under arrest, by shorter police officers. >> and those are some of the headlines this is democracy now, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. >> welcome to all of our listeners and viewers around the country. the 72-hour ceasefire in gaza has entered its final 24 hours. talks are ongoing to extend the truce but no agreement has been reached. palestinian and israeli officials are in egypt but have not held face to face negotiations on securing a lasting ceasefire. meanwhile gaza is in a state of devastation and ruin. close to 1900 pal

he's been arrested and his wife now, chrissy ortiz has also been arrested and she is saying in the 4:e light is coming into their apartment. this is about police around the country and certainly not all police, but somehow feeling they have permission. so, it's not only that they killed the person, the messenger. the one that showed us what took place. they arrest him and they arrest his wife. this is a very serious issue. it's the reality of people in america. and, sadly, the reality all too often of people of couple in ameri america. >> thinking about the disposability in this case but when we compare the coverage around mcbride to say trayvon martin, there is also the hypervisibility and hyperinvisibility of particular bodies. then when we look at the verdict of the trayvon martin verdict of mcbride, i'm thinking of the gender and empathy and the potential to empthiz differently. >> are we going to need to do a segment about african-american communities and also wondering if we're going to need to talk about the ways in which it might have made more sense to a jury that a young wom