'A reasonable officer': Chauvin lawyer makes closing argument

Nelson repeated a single phrase scores of times, saying Chauvin behaved as a "reasonable police office" would in dealing with a man as "large" as George Floyd, who was struggling against being put in a police car when Chauvin arrived at the scene responding to a call for back-up.

Earlier, the prosecution repeated a phrase: "Nine minutes and 29 seconds," — the length of time Chauvin was captured on video on May 25, 2020, with his knee pressed into the dying Floyd's neck.

Nelson said the prosecution's focus on that time frame "ignores the previous 16 minutes and 59 seconds."

"It tries to reframe the issue of what a reasonable police office would do," Nelson said.