MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - The top five candidates to be elected mayor of Minneapolis met up for the first debate of the campaign season Friday morning.

Mayor Jacob Frey, state Sen. Omar Fateh, Rev. Dewayne Davis, Jazz Hampton, and Brenda Short took the stage at Westminster Presbyterian.

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Debate disagreements:

In 82 minutes of debate, the candidates shared only a few differences in policy, including how to handle unhoused people in Minneapolis.

And even that started with agreement: None of them want encampments to exist.

"But we need to deal with it in a humane and compassionate way," said Fateh. "And what we know is that bulldozing our neighbors block by block does not put them into housing, throwing away their belongings, their key identifiers, their social security ca

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