City Attacks Unhoused People's Encampment, Destroys Personal Property, in Pre-Dawn Raid

A frontloader dumps a mangled tent and wooden platform materials into a dumptruck. A grey-mustached white man in a fluorescent vest and a police officer holding a piece of paper watches. Several police squad cars are in the foreground. A second frontloader is partially visible over a large pile of crushed tents, wood, bicycles, and clothing. The Minneapolis downtown skyline is in the background.
April 25, 2022

On 2022 April 19, on Tuesday starting at 5am the city of Minneapolis destroyed the homes and personal possessions of 20 residents of Minneapolis.

Minneapolis Police Department Arrest Person Who Came to Support Unhoused People While City Destroys Encampment

MPD officers appear to turn body cameras off, person arrested speaks out before being taken away.

Partial list of Minneapolis Police Department Squad cars at this action: 250, 262, 2203, 207, 160, 483, 181, 180, 1103, 105, 411, 461, 431, 4401, 425, 523, 421, 9, T2, 505, 521, 313, 993, 113, 121, 163, 115, 207, 212, 221, 223, 614, 612, 511, 326

Partial list of Minneapolis City Vehicles: 04524, 04499, 04204, 18131, 01284, 11857, 11879, 11863, 15126, 11858, 11849, PW 11856, PW 11844

A summary of what occurred can be read in this letter to the city of Minneapolis about Public Works and MPD’s destructive and violent removal of a tent encampment near 5th & Lake.

The people responsible for the violence against unhoused people at this event and others around Minneapolis can be contacted through their official contact information, compiled here.

Pictured below, a person pulling their remaining possessions away from the camp while it is being destroyed rests for a moment, setting the Minneapolis trash bin with their clothes upright.

A black rectangular trash bin labeled in white block letters 'Property of the City of Minneapolis', slightly overflowing with clothing and other possessions including a brown shirt hanging out.
Three people, pulling wheeled municipal trash barrels behind them, walk past a line of police vehicles on a blocked-off street, with the Minneapolis skyline in the background.
A frontloader dumps a mangled tent and wooden platform materials into a dumptruck. A grey-mustached white man in a fluorescent vest and a police officer holding a piece of paper watches. Several police squad cars are in the foreground. A second frontloader is partially visible over a large pile of crushed tents, wood, bicycles, and clothing. The Minneapolis downtown skyline is in the background.
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