Oscar López Rivera on NY Puerto Rican Parade Controversy & Why He Doesn't Need an Honor to March

Puerto Rican independence activist Oscar Lopez Rivera, who was imprisoned for about 35 years, joins us for his first broadcast interview in New York City since he was freed on May 17, 2017. His visit coincides with the city's long-standing Puerto Rican Day Parade. This year's organizers chose to honor Lopez Rivera as the parade's first "National Freedom Hero." But after a boycott campaign was organized by a right-wing conservative group funded by donors close to both President Trump and to Breitbart News, the city's police chief and a number of corporate sponsors said they will boycott the event. Oscar Lopez Rivera says he will still march, not as an official honoree but as a humble Puerto Rican and a grandfather.