The jury in the trial of Derek Chauvin adjourned without reaching a verdict on Monday night after deliberating for four hours.

The jurors began to deliberate for the first time at 4 p.m. CT on Monday, following closing arguments from the prosecution and the defense. They adjourned at 8 p.m. CT, according to an update from the Minnesota Judicial Branch.

The jurors will remain sequestered in a hotel each night until they arrive at a verdict or determine that they cannot all agree on a verdict.

ABC News' Whitney Lloyd contributed to this report.

Hundreds of high school students in Roseville, Minnesota joined a student walkout as deliberations continue in the Chauvin trial.

The Roseville Area High School students gathered outside the school just before 1 p.m. local time and marched to the Roseville Police Department, about a mile away. They wore black in solidarity for Floyd and the Black community.

Defense attorney Eric Nelson argued for a mistrial over comments Rep. Maxine Waters made regarding the trial over the weekend.

“We’ve got to stay on the street, and we’ve got to get more active, we’ve got to get more confrontational,” Waters said at a demonstration in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, on Saturday night when asked what protesters should do if Derek Chauvin is found not guilty.

Nelson brought up the comments after the jury was sent to deliberations Monday, saying he interpreted them “to be threats against the sanctity of the jury process” by “demanding that if there’s not a guilty verdict that there would be further problems.”

Judge Cahill denied the motion for a mistrial, saying jurors had been instructed not to watch the news and therefore couldn’t be prejudiced by the comments, but noted that “Congresswoman Waters may have given you something on appeal that may result in this whole trial being overturned.”

“I wish elected officials would stop talking about this case, especially in a manner that is disrespectful to the rule of law, or to the judicial branch in our function,” he later added. “I think if they want to give their opinions, they should do so in a respectful, and in a manner that is consistent with their oath to the Constitution.”

After closing arguments from the prosecution and the defense, jurors were sent to deliberate the case against Derek Chauvin.

“The state of Minnesota and the Defendant have a right to demand, and they do demand, that you will consider and weigh the evidence, apply the law, and reach a just verdict regardless of what the consequence might be,” Judge Cahill instructed the jury. “You must be absolutely fair. Remember that it is fair to find the Defendant guilty if the evidence and the law require it. On the other hand, it is fair to find the Defendant not guilty if you are not convinced of his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”

“Now, members of the jury, the case is in your hands as judges of the fact,” he said. “I’m certain that you realize this case is important, serious, and, therefore, deserves your careful consideration.”

The jury will be sequestered until jurors reach a verdict.