Derek Chauvin guilty on all counts in death of George Floyd

Chauvin would have been paying attention to the behavior of the crowd surrounding him and the other officers while restraining Floyd, Nelson said.

Minnesota Police Department training includes tactics on how to deal with a crowd, especially to "never underestimate a crowd."

"Crowds are very dynamic creatures and can change rapidly," Nelson said.

The bystanders on the scene of the Cup Foods began to raise their voices and call Chauvin names as the incident went on, Nelson said.

How Chauvin interacted with a crowd is in line with how a reasonable police officer would act, Nelson said.

The 9-minute and 29-second cellphone video of Chauvin kneeling on Floyd "completely disregards" what happened leading up to the restraint, Nelson said.

While the prosecution has been focusing on the length of the cellphone video, "a reasonable police officer would have taken into consideration the previous 16 minutes and 59 seconds," which included Floyd's resistance, Nelson said.

"Human behavior is unpredictable, and nobody knows it better than a police officer," Nelson said. "Someone can be compliant one second and fighting the next. Someone can be fighting and then compliant."

Government buildings in downtown Minneapolis are being fortified in the event of unrest following a verdict in the Chauvin trial.

Floyd was engaging in active resistance when Chauvin arrived on the scene of the Cup Foods, Nelson said.

Nelson played the video from Nelson’s body camera that showed two other officers struggling to put Floyd into the squad car as evidence of Floyd's resistance.

Nelson explained that a reasonable officer at that point would determine that the amount of force being used by the officers trying to put Floyd into the car was not enough to overpower Floyd’s resistance.