Minnesota National Guard 'ready' to keep peace for Derek Chauvin trial
Leaders say they'll be ready to protect peaceful protesters at Chauvin trial.
March 9, 2021 — 10:28am
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It was 4 a.m. on May 29, hours after the Minneapolis police's Third Precinct had gone up in flames.
Caitlin Weege, a 21-year-old nursing student at Duluth's Lake Superior College, sat in the extended back bed of a big Army truck as it rumbled down the street in Minneapolis. A corporal in the Minnesota National Guard's 257th Military Police Company, she couldn't see what was going on outside, but she knew it was bad.