Teen Recalls Seeing Floyd 'Terrified' and 'Suffering'

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Emotional Testimony at Chauvin Trial From Young Witnesses Haunted by Killing

This article is by John Eligon, they painted a harrowing, consis- Tim Arango and Nicholas Bogel- tent picture of what transpired at Burroughs. the intersection of 38th Street and MINNEAPOLIS — She was the Chicago Avenue in South Minne- teenager whose video of George apolis. They all said they have Floyd’s final moments rippled struggled with what they saw. across the globe. And in a court- “It seemed like he knew it was room on Tuesday, Darnella Fra- over for him,” Ms. Frazier said in zier, now 18, shared her story pub- her testimony, referring to Mr. licly for the first time, testifying Floyd. “He was terrified. He was that she remained haunted by Mr. suffering. This was a cry for help, Floyd’s cries for help as she definitely.” watched a police officer kneel on The bystanders offered ac- his neck. counts of converging outside of a Ms. Frazier, at times crying, convenience store for the most spoke softly during emotional tes- mundane of reasons — getting a timony on the second day of the phone cord, buying snacks, taking trial of Derek Chauvin, the former a walk — only to end up becoming officer facing murder charges. As central players in a drama that her voice cracked, Ms. Frazier de- would grip much of the country. scribed how what she witnessed They urged the police to render that day last May had changed her aid to Mr. Floyd to no avail. They life. She sometimes lies awake at excoriated Mr. Chauvin and the night, she said, “apologizing to three other officers on the scene, George Floyd for not doing more and said they felt scared that the and not physically interacting and police would harm them, includ- JIM HUYLEBROEK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES not saving his life.” ing in one instance when Mr. A member of the Afghan police at an outpost near the front line with the Taliban in Kandahar this month as a cease-fire took effect. “When I look at George Floyd, I Chauvin put his hand on his mace. look at my dad,” she added. “I look The defense has said that the at my brothers. I look at my cous- crowd influenced the way the po- ins, my uncles because they are all lice responded after arriving on Black. I have a Black father. I have the scene. It has become a crucial Taliban Believe Biden Wants Big Business to Foot Bill to Rebuild a Black brother. I have Black point of contention between the friends. And I look at that, and I prosecution and the defense. The War’s Over its they earn and book overseas. look at how that could have been Mr. Chauvin’s lawyer said that By JIM TANKERSLEY Price Tag of $2 Trillion The corporate tax rate had been one of them.” the officers felt threatened at what and EMILY COCHRANE cut under President Donald J. Ms. Frazier was among a di- they saw as a growing and in- Trump from 35 percent to 21 per- creasingly hostile crowd, which And They Won WASHINGTON — President Requires 15 Years verse group of bystanders who by cent. diverted their attention from car- Biden intends to pay for the $2 tril- accident became eyewitnesses to ing for Mr. Floyd. The prosecution lion package of infrastructure of Higher Taxes The new plans come on top of one of the most high-profile police has attempted to portray the by- By ADAM NOSSITER spending he will propose on the $1.9 trillion stimulus plan Mr. brutality cases of recent decades. KABUL, Afghanistan — The Wednesday with a substantial in- Biden signed into law this month, They were Black and white. There standers as ordinary people who were scared and presented no Taliban’s swagger is unmistak- crease in corporate taxes, people agenda would not add further to which was financed entirely by was a firefighter, high school stu- danger to the officers. able. From the recent bellicose briefed on the plan said Tuesday. the growing national debt. But the borrowing and was passed with dents and a mixed martial artist. speech of their deputy leader, The scale of the infrastructure fact that his proposed tax in- no Republican support. The pro- Their stories were an expres- Those different views reflect boasting of “conquests,” to sneer- program — one of the most ambi- creases would not cover his grams reflect Mr. Biden’s cam- sion of the trauma of a city that is longstanding tensions between ing references to the “foreign tious attempts in generations to spending over the same period paign promises and a leftward still struggling to rebuild physi- Black residents in Minneapolis masters” of the “illegitimate” Ka- shore up the nation’s aging roads, shows the challenge he has in bal- shift in his party in recent years. cally and emotionally from last and the police who patrol their bul government, to the Taliban’s bridges, rail lines and utilities — is ancing his big goals and the If his full set of proposals be- summer’s unrest. neighborhoods. own website tally of “puppets” so big that it will require 15 years deficit. came law, they would mark a new Most of Tuesday’s witnesses Mr. Chauvin’s lawyer, Eric J. killed — Afghan soldiers — they of higher taxes on corporations to Mr. Biden’s proposals include era of ambitious federal spending were children and teenagers at Nelson, did little to press most of are promoting a bold message: pay for eight years of spending, raising the corporate tax rate to 28 to address longstanding social the time of the fatal arrest, and Continued on Page A17 We have already won the war. they said. percent from 21 percent and ef- and economic problems. Their And that belief, grounded in mil- Despite his ambitious pro- forts to force multinational corpo- odds of passing Congress have ris- itary and political reality, is shap- grams, Mr. Biden had pledged rations to pay significantly more en in the midst of a pandemic in THE JURORS The 12 members and two alternates, invisible to most of ing Afghanistan’s volatile present. that his long-term economic in tax to the United States on prof- Continued on Page A16 the public, hold a range of views about race and policing. PAGE A17 On the eve of talks in Turkey next month over the country’s future, it is the elephant in the room: the half-acknowledged truth that the Taliban have the upper hand and Gaetz Said to Face U.S. Inquiry are thus showing little outward in- terest in compromise, or of going Over Sex With an Underage Girl along with the dominant Ameri- can idea, power-sharing. for her to travel with him, accord- While the Taliban’s current This article is by Michael S. ing to three people briefed on the rhetoric is also propaganda, the Schmidt, Katie Benner and Nicho- matter. grim sense of Taliban supremacy las Fandos. Investigators are examining is dictating the response of a des- Representative Matt Gaetz, Re- whether Mr. Gaetz violated fed- perate Afghan government and publican of Florida and a close ally eral sex trafficking laws, the peo- influencing Afghanistan’s anxious of former President Donald J. ple said. A variety of federal stat- foreign interlocutors. It contrib- Trump, is being investigated by utes make it illegal to induce utes to the abandonment of doz- someone under 18 to travel over the Justice Department over ens of checkpoints and falling state lines to engage in sex in ex- whether he had a sexual relation- morale among the Afghan securi- change for money or something of ty forces, already hammered by a ship with a 17-year-old and paid value. The Justice Department “not sustainable” casualty rate of regularly prosecutes such cases, perhaps 3,000 a month, a senior and offenders often receive se- Western diplomat in Kabul said. vere sentences. The group doesn’t hide its pride It was not clear how Mr. Gaetz at having compelled its principal met the girl, believed to be 17 at adversary for 20 years, the United the time of encounters about two States, to negotiate with the Tal- years ago that investigators are iban and, last year, to sign an scrutinizing, according to two of agreement to completely with- the people. draw U.S. troops from Afghani- The investigation was opened stan by May 1, 2021. In exchange, in the final months of the Trump the Taliban agreed to stop attack- administration under Attorney POOL PHOTO BY DARIO LOPEZ-MILLS ing foreign forces and to sever ties ERIN SCHAFF/THE NEW YORK TIMES General William P. Barr, the two with international terrorist Representative Matt Gaetz, people said. Given Mr. Gaetz’s na- ‘No Place for a Child’ Continued on Page A10 Republican of Florida. Continued on Page A19 More than 4,000 migrants are now crammed into a detention center in Donna, Texas. Page A16.

At an Elite Hospital, Huge Bills to Test for Covid Filipino Woman Attacked While Others Stood By Ana Roa, who was billed $3,358 for from the lobby of a nearby luxury By SARAH KLIFF $3,000 for Nasal Swab a test at Lenox Hill last month. This article is by Nicole Hong, Ju- A Brazen Assault on a apartment building. When the Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhat- Ms. Roa’s coronavirus test bill is liana Kim, Ali Watkins and Ashley woman struggled to stand up, one tan advertised its “Covid-19 Test- at Lenox Hill among 16 that The New York Southall. Manhattan Sidewalk of the men, a security guard, ing” on a large blue and white ban- Times reviewed from the site. The security camera video was closed the front door to the build- ner outside its Greenwich Village They show that Lenox Hill arrives shocking in its brutality. A 65- ing. division’s emergency room. The at its unusually high prices by year-old Filipino immigrant was Even as reports of anti-Asian banner said nothing about cost. than $3,000 for the routine nasal charging a large fee for the test it- walking down a street near Times Then again. And again. He yelled hate crimes have escalated in re- But cost turned out to be the swab test, about 30 times the self — about six times the typical Square when a man, in broad day- an obscenity at her, according to a cent weeks, the video released by testing’s most noteworthy fea- test’s typical cost. charge — and by billing the en- light, suddenly kicked her in the police official, and then said, “You police officials on Monday ture. Lenox Hill, one of the city’s “It was shocking to see a num- counter as a “moderately com- stomach. don’t belong here.” evening touched a fresh nerve. oldest and best-known hospitals, ber like that, when I’ve gotten plex” emergency room visit. She crumpled to the sidewalk. As the violent scene unfolded in The sheer brazenness of the at- repeatedly billed patients more tested before for about $135,” said Continued on Page A6 He kicked her once in the head. Manhattan, three men watched Continued on Page A15

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