Click the BBC News link if you're interested in the never ending violence here in Idiot America. Thank goodness I live in a northwestern Illinois farm town where people are civilized. We don't have any "drive-by shootings".

BBC News

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56806961

How is the US preparing for the verdict?

The footage of Mr Chauvin, who is white, restraining Mr Floyd, a black man, on the floor as he shouted "I can't breathe" spurred months of global protests in 2020.

On Monday the governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, requested security assistance from the states of Ohio and Nebraska ahead of the verdict.

The Democrat was heavily criticised after more than 1,000 buildings and businesses were damaged in rioting last year.

In the early hours of Sunday, two National Guard members who were providing neighbourhood security in Minneapolis escaped with minor injuries when they were shot at in a drive-by shooting.