The city has started clearing a Minneapolis landlord's private homeless encampment following a mass shooting that injured eight people.

Mayor Jacob Frey quickly announced that the city will close the encampment, which it had been trying to do for weeks, as a result of the Monday night shooting at East Lake Street and 28th Avenue South. He described the encampment as a "danger to the community."

"If the landlord wants to sue us, we'll see him in court," the mayor said in a statement Tuesday. "It was his choice to prevent us from closing it twice before, and this won't be tolerated."

Last week, the Minneapolis City Council approved a lawsuit against Hamoudi Sabri, who invited dozens of unhoused people to set up their tents on a parking lot behind a vacant building that he owns and rejecte

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