the game had been scheduled for mid july just outside atlanta. the league it says it is looking for a new post city. a senior minneapolis police official testified today that derek chauvin no reason to kneel on george floyd's neck when he was already down and handcuffed. the lieutenant richard zimmerman heads the homicide division and said the former officer's actions were totally unnecessary. >> i saw no reason why the officers felt they were in danger. and that is what they would have to feel in order to use that kind of force. stephanie: that testimony closed out the first week of derek chauvin's trial in minneapolis. he is charged with murder and manslaughter. a texas sheriff has fired seven officers after a black man died in jail last month. marvin scott was arrested for marijuana possession. the guard said he was acting strangely so they tied him down and used pepper spray and a so-called spit hood on him. his family says scott had mental health problems. the suspect in a mass shooting rampage in southern california was charged today with f

mlb pulled the midsummer classic from atlanta overt restrictions to atlanta's new voting laws. we will hear more about that after the news summary. and baylor university's men's basketball team has won its first-ever national championship. baylor ended gonzaga's undefeated season, prevailing in an 86-70 blowout that sent baylor's campus into a frenzy. we'll talk to the coach of the women's ncaa championship team, stanford, later in the program. still to come on the newshour, more businesses in georgia speak out against the controversial new voting law. several pro football players of color claim they were penalized in the nfl concussion settlement. how turning to the performing arts can help ease political divide. plus much more. >> this is the "pbs newshour" f rom washington and in the west from the want cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. judy: delta, coca-cola, and major league baseball are some of the dozens of companies speaking out against new voting legislation in georgia and other states. georgia's law signed late last month poses new id requireme

over the weekend, major league baseball pulling up the all-star game from atlanta. my question is, how does this kind of pressure sit with political leaders? can it be effective in getting them to change a law? >> this is really vaccinating. it is been a fascinating develop ment. it did not start with this georgia law. we saw it in places like north carolina with the bathroom bill. we are seated on gay rights and other states. the laws and other states. what is happening, and this is especially true in the south, these metro regions like atlanta, dallas, houston that were pretty republican have become a lot more democratic. this is where these companies are headquartered and many of their employees come from those blue areas. they live in those blue areas and those expectations are that the companies they work for reflect the values that they share. that is a bg reason why we are seeing in states where they have incredible influence but were that influence is really relegated to just the metro region. what i think happens is that it divides e state. once again betwe

. >> woodruff: this attack follows mass shootings in boulder, colorado, and atlanta in the last two weeks. in myanmar, demonstrations erupted across the country today, marking two months since the military seized power. protesters in yangon and mandalay burned copies of the constitution that ensured military dominance in the legislature. they also honored more than 500 otesters killed so far. a court in hong kong convicted seven pro-democracy leaders today for their role in mass protests in 2019. they include martin lee, the 82-year-old founder of the territory's democratic party, and media tycoon jimmy lai. they could get five years in prison. we'll have details, later in the program. back in this country, president biden held his first full cabinet meeting, with everyone spread out and fully masked. it took place in the east room of the white house, to allow for social distancing. the president urged them to push his infrastructure plan, and buy american. this was opening day for major league baseball-- but covid-19 claimed an immediate casualty. a washington nationals player tested pos

eventually, he and his wife launched restaurants of their own in manhattan and atlanta. charlie's warmth made it easy to build a rapport with colleagues and guests, and many became friends for life. he cherished his time with family, and above all, wanted to be a role model for his grandkids. sherrell gorman was always on the move, her friends and family said. she was the kind of person who would "always bring joy into the room." sherrell was well-known in her louisiana community as the captain of the long-running all-woman “krewe of isis,” one of the many teams that organize mardi gras celebrations. but the 56-year-old was just as well-known for her generous spir. one lifelong friend said that, whenever she met someone new, "she never left a stranger." those closest to robb malone described him as selfless and relentlessly positive. a sports standout during high school, robb became a much-loved coach within his minnesota youth-sports community. it was because he put “genuine care for the players” above all else, his daughter said. he was quick to help neighbors,

and then over the weekend, or friday, major league baseball pulling out the all-star game from atlanta. my question is: how does this kind of pressure sit with political leaders? does it -- can it be affective in getting them to change a law? >> amy: you know, judy, this is really fascinating. it has been a fascinating development that has been going on for the last 10 or 15 years, and it doesn't really start with the georgia law. were you saw it, from example, in places like north north carolina with the bathroom bill, and gun laws, and this is especially true in the southeast, and metro regions like atlanta and dallas and houston, have become much more democratic, and in some cases, deep blue. this is where these companies are head quartered, and many of the employees come from the blue areas and live in the blue areas, and the expectations are the companies they work for reflect the values that they share. and that's, i think, a big reason why we're seeing so many of these companies in states where the company has an incredible influence, but where that influence is really relegated

the chase began outside atlanta, when state troopers pulled a car going 111 miles an hour. they say the driver took off again, and the other man opened fire on pursuing police. a shooting erupted this afternoon at a high school in knoxville, tennessee. police say one male student was killed and an officer was wounded. state officials say the student reportely opened fire when confronted by the officer, who fired back. there's no word on a motive, but three students from that high school were killed in separate off-campus shootings over a period of three weeks in february. on the pandemic, new numbers show 28% of the u.s. population is now fully vaccinated for covid-19. at the same time, infections are rising again -- especially in michigan. governor gretchen whitmer is pressing for more vaccine doses. but today, the cdc said that won't solve the problem. >> when you have an acute situation, extraordinary number of cases like we have in michigan, the answer is not necessarily to give vaccine. in fact, we know that the vaccine will have a delayed response. the answer to that

. >> nawaz: and online, more than a month after the atlanta shootings, asian-owned businesses in the u.s. say they're operating in fear. the recent rise in hate crimes and violence against these businesses adds to the economic crisis many of them have been grappling with since the beginning of the pandemic. all that and more at: pbs.org/newshour. and that's the newshour for tonight. i'm amna nawaz. join us online and again here tomorrow evening. for all of us at the pbs newshour, thank you and see you soon. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> the kendeda fund. committed to advancing restorative justice and meaningful work through investments in transformative leaders and ideas. more at kendedafund.org. >> the alfred p. sloan foundation. driven by the promise of great ideas. >> supported by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. mmitted to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcast

in the city of atlanta, the number odrop boxes based on a calculation under the law might drop from a 40 to only 8. many of the drop boxes, in fac all of them, would be put behind doors in office buildings that would be closed during the evenings and other times when working folks may wanto go in and drop off their ballot. as you observed at the very beginning, there are new restriction on absentee ballots, for example, and the days available to request an absentee ballot have been reduced quite significantly. so i looked at that and s.a.t., hmm, this feels to me as though maybe the intention was good, but i am a little concerned that the effect, particularly on african-americans and others, might be disproportionate and might be negative, might discourage individuals from voting whose forefathers fought really hard for the right to vote. >> woodruff: did you agree with the decision by major league baseball to pull the all-star game out of georgia? >> look, i believe major league baseball made a decision based on their own analysis of what was good for the sport and, you know, what th

think about a place like georgia where the atlanta suburbs have been booming, not so much in the other parts in the state. you have to readjust those congressional lines am you can gain or lose a seat as a party just because, even if you are not gaining or losing a congressional district, right. the good news for democrats, they have more control over the process than they did in 2010, the last time the lines were drawn. the bad news for democrats, the good news for republicans is that republicans still control more than twice as many congressal district lines in terms of, they have total control for drawing that many more lines. that is likely to help, as i said, especially in places that are fast growing, texas, north carolina, but also in a place like georgia where democrats have made really big gains in these last two years, but republicans control the entire line drawing process. and so what you may see there is democrats actually winning two senate seats but in the next upcoming election they may lose a congressional district. >> so much depends on who controls these states, the

. >> and i think what happened in atlanta was perhaps on a more national ale, a catalyst, an explosion, because it combined something like a mass shooting with the concept of hate and that hyper sexualization of asian-american women. so, i think that's why many see it as a turning point. >> reporter: shocking as the images and stories are of the recent surge in asian hate crimes, it's not totally surprising to the people here in oakland's chinatown. california has the oldest and largest asian community, and as such, a long and tortured history of discrimination and harassment. >> knowing the yellow peril history that whenever a disease arrived from asia that asians would be met with violence and with racist policies, we knew we had to document the racism we're experiencing. >> reporter: russell jeung, professor of asian american studies at san francisco state university, started the stop asian american pacific islanders hate crimes online tracking system in march 2020, at the start of the covid crisis. >> the chinese virus... >> that's exactly when the same week president trump began t