Steve Schleicher, one of four attorneys on the prosecuting team against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, made his closing argument Monday. Much like the rest of his team’s case, it relied on a fantasy about what actually happened the day that George Floyd died.

It’s sort of ironic. Schleicher kept telling the jury over and over again that it was Chauvin’s lawyer who was introducing “hypotheticals that don’t apply,” that there’s a video that gives them all the reason they need to deliver a conviction. But it’s Schleicher and the prosecution hoping the jury will imagine an alternate reality.