Typically, we might start a story about a trial on the steps of a courthouse.

But the murder trial of Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis Police Officer caught on film

kneeling on the neck of George Floyd for almost nine minutes. It's not just any trial.

Most of downtown Minneapolis and especially the block where the trial is being held is

barricaded, infencing, barbed wire, and patroled by National Guardsmen.

There's been a knot in my stomach for the last few days leading up to this because

I'm not sure we're going to see justice.

So Lisa Kelly has been protesting on the closest corner she could get to the Hennepin County

courthouse. And instead of a cardboard sign, she brought mirrors.

We haven't forgotten the way in P.D. brutalized this city and citizens for peacefully protesting

all summer long. We haven't forgotten that there still hasn't been justice.

And so our message to them today is to reflect.

She told NPR's Laila Faddle that she plans to hold them up if police officers approach.

Ask them to reflect on their actions.

The protests in the riots may have been a thing of last year, but we're still here.

We're still grieving. We're still angry. We still want to see justice. So yeah, we'll be out here all day.

Consider this. George Floyd's death sparked a year of mass protests pledges from corporate

America and social media campaigns. But so far, none of that has translated to major changes in

the way these cases play out in criminal courtrooms. And that means the question of how to hold

police accountable for violence is still an open one.

From NPR, I'm Audie Cornish. It's Tuesday, March 9.

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