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The security camera video wasshocking in its brutality. A 65-year-old Filipino immigrant waswalking down a street near TimesSquare when a man, in broad day-light, suddenly kicked her in thestomach.

She crumpled to the sidewalk.He kicked her once in the head.

Then again. And again. He yelledan obscenity at her, according to apolice official, and then said, “Youdon’t belong here.”

As the violent scene unfolded inManhattan, three men watched

from the lobby of a nearby luxuryapartment building. When thewoman struggled to stand up, oneof the men, a security guard,closed the front door to the build-ing.

Even as reports of anti-Asianhate crimes have escalated in re-cent weeks, the video released bypolice officials on Mondayevening touched a fresh nerve.The sheer brazenness of the at-

Filipino Woman Attacked While Others Stood ByThis article is by Nicole Hong, Ju-

liana Kim, Ali Watkins and AshleySouthall.

A Brazen Assault on aManhattan Sidewalk

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THE JURORS The 12 members and two alternates, invisible to most ofthe public, hold a range of views about race and policing. PAGE A17

MINNEAPOLIS — She was theteenager whose video of GeorgeFloyd’s final moments rippledacross the globe. And in a court-room on Tuesday, Darnella Fra-zier, now 18, shared her story pub-licly for the first time, testifyingthat she remained haunted by Mr.Floyd’s cries for help as shewatched a police officer kneel onhis neck.

Ms. Frazier, at times crying,spoke softly during emotional tes-timony on the second day of thetrial of Derek Chauvin, the formerofficer facing murder charges. Asher voice cracked, Ms. Frazier de-scribed how what she witnessedthat day last May had changed herlife. She sometimes lies awake atnight, she said, “apologizing toGeorge Floyd for not doing moreand not physically interacting andnot saving his life.”

“When I look at George Floyd, Ilook at my dad,” she added. “I lookat my brothers. I look at my cous-ins, my uncles because they are allBlack. I have a Black father. I havea Black brother. I have Blackfriends. And I look at that, and Ilook at how that could have beenone of them.”

Ms. Frazier was among a di-verse group of bystanders who byaccident became eyewitnesses toone of the most high-profile policebrutality cases of recent decades.They were Black and white. Therewas a firefighter, high school stu-dents and a mixed martial artist.

Their stories were an expres-sion of the trauma of a city that isstill struggling to rebuild physi-cally and emotionally from lastsummer’s unrest.

Most of Tuesday’s witnesseswere children and teenagers atthe time of the fatal arrest, and

they painted a harrowing, consis-tent picture of what transpired atthe intersection of 38th Street andChicago Avenue in South Minne-apolis. They all said they havestruggled with what they saw.

“It seemed like he knew it wasover for him,” Ms. Frazier said inher testimony, referring to Mr.Floyd. “He was terrified. He wassuffering. This was a cry for help,definitely.”

The bystanders offered ac-counts of converging outside of aconvenience store for the mostmundane of reasons — getting aphone cord, buying snacks, takinga walk — only to end up becomingcentral players in a drama thatwould grip much of the country.

They urged the police to renderaid to Mr. Floyd to no avail. Theyexcoriated Mr. Chauvin and thethree other officers on the scene,and said they felt scared that thepolice would harm them, includ-ing in one instance when Mr.Chauvin put his hand on his mace.

The defense has said that thecrowd influenced the way the po-lice responded after arriving onthe scene. It has become a crucialpoint of contention between theprosecution and the defense.

Mr. Chauvin’s lawyer said thatthe officers felt threatened at whatthey saw as a growing and in-creasingly hostile crowd, whichdiverted their attention from car-ing for Mr. Floyd. The prosecutionhas attempted to portray the by-standers as ordinary people whowere scared and presented nodanger to the officers.

Those different views reflectlongstanding tensions betweenBlack residents in Minneapolisand the police who patrol theirneighborhoods.

Mr. Chauvin’s lawyer, Eric J.Nelson, did little to press most of

Teen Recalls Seeing Floyd‘Terrified’ and ‘Suffering’

Emotional Testimony at Chauvin Trial FromYoung Witnesses Haunted by Killing

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This article is by John Eligon,Tim Arango and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs.

Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhat-tan advertised its “Covid-19 Test-ing” on a large blue and white ban-ner outside its Greenwich Villagedivision’s emergency room. Thebanner said nothing about cost.

But cost turned out to be thetesting’s most noteworthy fea-ture. Lenox Hill, one of the city’soldest and best-known hospitals,repeatedly billed patients more

than $3,000 for the routine nasalswab test, about 30 times thetest’s typical cost.

“It was shocking to see a num-ber like that, when I’ve gottentested before for about $135,” said

Ana Roa, who was billed $3,358 fora test at Lenox Hill last month.

Ms. Roa’s coronavirus test bill isamong 16 that The New YorkTimes reviewed from the site.They show that Lenox Hill arrivesat its unusually high prices bycharging a large fee for the test it-self — about six times the typicalcharge — and by billing the en-counter as a “moderately com-plex” emergency room visit.

At an Elite Hospital, Huge Bills to Test for CovidBy SARAH KLIFF $3,000 for Nasal Swab

at Lenox Hill

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Subway, the world’s largest fast-foodchain by store count, has aggressivelyused product placement to become aubiquitous presence on South Koreantelevision shows. PAGE B1

BUSINESS B1-6

A South Korean TV HeroThe president’s first choices for districtand appeals court openings reflectedhis promise to choose judges with lesstraditional backgrounds. PAGE A14

NATIONAL A13-19

Biden’s Diverse Judicial PicksIn households where only some areinoculated from the virus, families arebalancing guilt and freedom. PAGE A8

TRACKING AN OUTBREAK A4-8

She’s Vaccinated. He Isn’t.

As global trade has grown, shippingcompanies have steadily increased thesize of container ships. The blockage ofthe Suez Canal showed the danger thatthe enormous vessels pose. PAGE B1

The Perils of Ever Bigger Ships

Thomas L. Friedman PAGE A23

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23With scrutiny from Congress and theSupreme Court, college athletics facesgrowing pressure to change. PAGE B7

Crucial Moment for N.C.A.A.

Researchers are exploring the possiblebenefits of pairing doses from twodifferent Covid-19 vaccines. PAGE A6

The Mix-and-Match Approach

The three commanders of the country’sarmed forces all abruptly resigned aday after President Jair Bolsonaro firedthe defense minister. PAGE A11

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Military Shake-Up in Brazil

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More than 4,000 migrants are now crammed into a detention center in Donna, Texas. Page A16.‘No Place for a Child’

Representative Matt Gaetz, Re-publican of Florida and a close allyof former President Donald J.Trump, is being investigated bythe Justice Department overwhether he had a sexual relation-ship with a 17-year-old and paid

for her to travel with him, accord-ing to three people briefed on thematter.

Investigators are examiningwhether Mr. Gaetz violated fed-eral sex trafficking laws, the peo-ple said. A variety of federal stat-utes make it illegal to inducesomeone under 18 to travel overstate lines to engage in sex in ex-change for money or something ofvalue. The Justice Departmentregularly prosecutes such cases,and offenders often receive se-vere sentences.

It was not clear how Mr. Gaetzmet the girl, believed to be 17 atthe time of encounters about twoyears ago that investigators arescrutinizing, according to two ofthe people.

The investigation was openedin the final months of the Trumpadministration under AttorneyGeneral William P. Barr, the twopeople said. Given Mr. Gaetz’s na-

Gaetz Said to Face U.S. InquiryOver Sex With an Underage GirlThis article is by Michael S.

Schmidt, Katie Benner and Nicho-las Fandos.

Continued on Page A19Representative Matt Gaetz,Republican of Florida.

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KABUL, Afghanistan — TheTaliban’s swagger is unmistak-able. From the recent bellicosespeech of their deputy leader,boasting of “conquests,” to sneer-ing references to the “foreignmasters” of the “illegitimate” Ka-bul government, to the Taliban’sown website tally of “puppets”killed — Afghan soldiers — theyare promoting a bold message:

We have already won the war.And that belief, grounded in mil-

itary and political reality, is shap-ing Afghanistan’s volatile present.On the eve of talks in Turkey nextmonth over the country’s future, itis the elephant in the room: thehalf-acknowledged truth that theTaliban have the upper hand andare thus showing little outward in-terest in compromise, or of goingalong with the dominant Ameri-can idea, power-sharing.

While the Taliban’s currentrhetoric is also propaganda, thegrim sense of Taliban supremacyis dictating the response of a des-perate Afghan government andinfluencing Afghanistan’s anxiousforeign interlocutors. It contrib-utes to the abandonment of doz-ens of checkpoints and fallingmorale among the Afghan securi-ty forces, already hammered by a“not sustainable” casualty rate ofperhaps 3,000 a month, a seniorWestern diplomat in Kabul said.

The group doesn’t hide its prideat having compelled its principaladversary for 20 years, the UnitedStates, to negotiate with the Tal-iban and, last year, to sign anagreement to completely with-draw U.S. troops from Afghani-stan by May 1, 2021. In exchange,the Taliban agreed to stop attack-ing foreign forces and to sever tieswith international terrorist

Taliban Believe The War’s Over And They Won

By ADAM NOSSITER

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.JIM HUYLEBROEK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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WASHINGTON — PresidentBiden intends to pay for the $2 tril-lion package of infrastructurespending he will propose onWednesday with a substantial in-crease in corporate taxes, peoplebriefed on the plan said Tuesday.

The scale of the infrastructureprogram — one of the most ambi-tious attempts in generations toshore up the nation’s aging roads,bridges, rail lines and utilities — isso big that it will require 15 yearsof higher taxes on corporations topay for eight years of spending,they said.

Despite his ambitious pro-grams, Mr. Biden had pledgedthat his long-term economic

agenda would not add further tothe growing national debt. But thefact that his proposed tax in-creases would not cover hisspending over the same periodshows the challenge he has in bal-ancing his big goals and thedeficit.

Mr. Biden’s proposals includeraising the corporate tax rate to 28percent from 21 percent and ef-forts to force multinational corpo-rations to pay significantly morein tax to the United States on prof-

its they earn and book overseas.The corporate tax rate had beencut under President Donald J.Trump from 35 percent to 21 per-cent.

The new plans come on top ofthe $1.9 trillion stimulus plan Mr.Biden signed into law this month,which was financed entirely byborrowing and was passed withno Republican support. The pro-grams reflect Mr. Biden’s cam-paign promises and a leftwardshift in his party in recent years.

If his full set of proposals be-came law, they would mark a newera of ambitious federal spendingto address longstanding socialand economic problems. Theirodds of passing Congress have ris-en in the midst of a pandemic in

Biden Wants Big Business to Foot Bill to RebuildBy JIM TANKERSLEY

and EMILY COCHRANEPrice Tag of $2 Trillion

Requires 15 Yearsof Higher Taxes

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Many mothers feel the government leftthem on their own as the pandemicadded to their burdens. Now both politi-cal parties are courting them. PAGE A18

Mothers Say Aid Is Overdue

Democrats will need unity to pass asweeping bill at the center of an ambi-tious legislative push, but there is dis-agreement over strategy. PAGE A13

Splintering Over Voting Rights

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Drew Timme, above, scored 23 pointsas the Bulldogs reached the N.C.A.A.men’s Final Four unbeaten. PAGE B8

SPORTSWEDNESDAY B7-10

The Big 30-0 for GonzagaG. Gordon Liddy, engineer of the botchedburglary that brought down Richard M.Nixon, served 52 months in prison afterrefusing to testify. He was 90. PAGE A21

OBITUARIES A20-21, B12

Watergate Ringleader

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