breezeway

That’s the low hum of the highway you hear behind me, offset by the rumble of the ice machine down the breezeway.

According to a sheriff’s report, after the shooting when other deputies arrived to render aid, Duran walked into the breezeway outside the unit and struck a wall with his right fist, saying “F—.”

A yellow-tape police line and about a half-dozen federal police vehicles formed a barricade, keeping people from a palm tree-lined breezeway and the public entrance to the modern, largely glass Wilkie D. Ferguson federal courthouse.

An impromptu line of reporters and other media representatives — some getting paid just to hold a place in the queue — formed at the courthouse breezeway entrance, as if for Taylor Swift concert tickets, because authorities had not yet said how prized spots in the courtroom where Trump is expected to appear at 3 p.m.

Towering palm trees line the breezeway where criminal defendants normally walk on their way into the sleek, high-rise courthouse.