Some Democrats seethed privately. They heard the remarks of House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters, D-Calif. Waters pushed demonstrators to be "confrontational" if the verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial didn’t go the way she wanted. Waters’ comments threatened to unspool the very tightly wound Democratic coalition of moderates and progressives. Some rank-and-file Democrats found Waters remarks revolting. That disgust metastasized further after Hennepin, MN County Judge Peter Cahill criticized Waters from the bench on Monday, describing her comments as "disrespectful to the rule of law." "Congresswoman Waters may have given you something on appeal that may result in this whole trial being overturned," opined Cahill to Chauvin’s defense counsel.