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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.
By REID FORGRAVE | Star Tribune | Published: March 9, 2021 MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (Tribune News Service) 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. Weege could smell smoke from fires around the Twin Cities during the riots after George Floyd s death in Minneapolis police custody. She could see flickering of flames through the canvas truck top covering her and dozens more soldiers.