williams overheard mr. floyd pleading for his life as chauvin, with his knee on floyd s neck, for an agonizing 9 minutes and 2 9 seconds. we ll speak with george floyd s brother in just a moment. we begin with omar jimenez in minneapolis with the emotional start to this trial. good morning. this is day 14, but in many ways, this week has felt like a new beginning for this trial. this true test of what criminal accountability looks like for policing in america. and opening statements gave us a clear indication of what each side is going to argue, either in favor of or against derek chauvin. the most important numbers you ll hear in this story are 9:29. what happened in the 9 minutes and 29 seconds. reporter: 9 minutes and 29 seconds. that s the corrected length of time prosecutors say derek chauvin knelt on george floyd s neck. during day one of opening statements, prosecutor jerry blackwell played a bystander s video in full for the jury. mr. derek chauvin betrayed th
this is about systemic inequality, in one of the most egregious and documented cases we ve ever seen. remember, the big difference between oj and this. if there was video of what happened to the two people who died in the oj situation, that trial would have either never happened or would have been very short. you know that s not what i am talking i mean, the interest by the way, though, that s what johnny cochran made it about. yes, which was genius. the interest, there, was much greater. yeah. than here. it s not even close. i saw, the other night, it was reported that this has been watched a lot, in the modern era. we haven t had any trials. and people don t watch television, like they did then. it s a different it s a different viewing habit. there there wasn t the internet. there s no cell phones. you couldn t watch on your phones. people sat around. and remember, shows were created around oj simpson. this went on for months. absolutely. but remember,
we go through a lot of pain. we go through a lot of grief. every single day. nobody knows what my niece go through not having her father anymore that officer didn t know that he had a daughter. that he didn t go home to. he would never see again. i am going to talk to the floyd family attorney benjamin crump in just a moment. first, sara sidner in minneapolis f. trial continues tomorrow. you will be there, as you have been. you say this is completely unlike any trial that you have covered as a journalist. tell us why. it is. partly because of covid. partly because it is the very first time that an entire trial gavel to gavel is being allowed to be broadcast from the courtroom. that s never happened here in minnesota before. so that s different. but it is also a very strange place in some ways because it is so extremely quiet and everyone s attention is on each and every witness. you can t even hear paper rustling inside of that court. on may 25th of 2020, mr. derek ch
and we speak to the family doctor on a ventilator a year ago about the life lessons he s drawn from the pandemic. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. let s start with breaking news from boulder in colorado. ten people have been killed including a police officer. i suspect is in custody and is receiving hospital treatment. the hearts of this community go out to the victims of this horrific incident. we know of ten facilities at the scene, including one of our boulder pd officers by the name of eric talley. at 1430 hrs, the boulder police department began receiving phone calls of shots fired in the area, and a phone call about a possible person with a patrol rifle. officer talley responded and was the first on the scene. he was fatally shot. i also want to commend the heroic actions of the officers responding not only from boulder pd but from across the county and other parts of this region. police officers actions fell nothing short of being her
floyd was an unknown, regular, and innocent civilian. his slow, brutal killing, 8:46, caught on tape, sparked something that if you think about it tonight, virtually every american now knows at least something about it. national protests spanning months, the reignited blm movement, center stage. formal demands for police reform, and ultimately what barack obama himself called the greatest social justice push of this entire generation. so now, many do know about george floyd. his face portrayed in murals and memorials around the nation, but as a legal matter, this trial is primarily not about floyd but rather about the defendant, officer derek chauvin. the judgment will be for him, not floyd. the evidence will be to assess hiss actions and mind state, not that of the man he killed. chauvin faces a range of murder charges including third degree murder and his side haas already lost one opening request to try to move the trial somewhere else. chauvin s lawyers had claimed all th