Any time. What is the u. S. Planning to do about putins main rival. I am erin burnett. Good evening, i am erin burnett. Groups of protests are outside the courthouse. 12 men and 12 women are deliberating at this hour. They are doing that. They are deliberating right now left to decide whether chauvin is guilty of Seconddegree Murder and thirddegree Man Slaughter. One senior White House officials telling cnn the thinking inside the West Wing this is already a tinderbox, it is becoming volatile over the days. Cities in New York and washington To Chicago and Los Angeles are bracing for protests and potential unrest in the wake of the verdict. In minneapolis, stores are boarded up. National guard is there and more than 100 troopers from Ohio And Nebraska is being called to keep the peace when needed. This trial puts a spotlight on policing in the u. S. This case is what you thought when you saw it first. It is exactly that. You can believe your eyes. It is exactly what you believed in and
250 d.c. national guard. this trial is about more than just one police officer s actions or one man s tragic death. which means for many the verdict will be, too. let go to omar jimenez. how is the country reacting now that the jury is deliberating. reporter: we re seeing marks and protests calling for the verdict to be guilty against derek chauvin but the jury is deliberating whether they get to that point. this process is close to a year in the making. they are marching through the streets of parts of minneapolis and when you talk about the preparations in place prior to that, law enforcement presence is stepped up and added fort fa c fort fa case and all this is in anticipation of a verdict and as people on both sides in this trial made their final pitches to jurors today. his name was george floyd, junior. the first words in closing arguments for prosecution were not the man in trial but the man they want jurors to remember. this case is exactly what you thought