From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports.

I'm Alexis D.O.

It's Thursday, April 1st.

Today, the emotional first days of testimony in the trial of Derek Chauvin and Biden's

infrastructure plan.

My name is Holly Bailey.

I'm a national correspondent for the Washington Post, currently based in Minneapolis, covering

the George Floyd case and specifically the Derrick Show in trial.

I think everybody in the world knows who George Floyd is at this point because of the video

that was circulated widely last summer and caused a national reckoning on race and policing

and social justice and sent millions of people into the streets.

George Floyd!

And it's this video that is sort of dominating the trial right now.

The one where you see a black man on the ground, face down, handcuffed, moaning, saying

you can't breathe, crying out for his mother with three officers atop of him and the one

specifically Derek Chauvin who has his knee on the man's neck for nine minutes and 29

seconds is now the count and watching it obviously feels kind of like an eternity in some ways.

Holly, can you set the scene for what it's been like in Minneapolis as this trial has started?

It's been very intense as this trial has approached the city of Minneapolis, basically boarded

up all of downtown Minneapolis.

Buildings are boarded up because they're covered with plywood.

There's huge security fencing.

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