we will go to chicago to speak with journalist and professor lilia fernÁndez, author of the book "brownin the windy city: mexicans and puerto ricans in postwar chicago." then a lieutenant in the army medical corps, caron nazario, is suing two virginia police officers who pepper-sprayed him, pushed him to the ground, and pointed their guns at him ring a traffic stop at a gas station. >> i am actively serving this country and this is how you're going to treat me? i did not do anything. hold on. amy: we will speak to lieutenant nazaio's lawyer. then a new york court has vindicated an african-american buffalo police officer who was punched in the face and then fired and stripped of her pension for stopping a white cop from choking a handcuffed black man during an arrest in 2006. the former officer, cariol horne, will join us. >> problems all of the time so i wanted a solution and what would force the officers to do it. if you don't force them, a lot of them want to do it because they don't want to cross over that blue line. amy: all of that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, de