In the span of 12 hours Monday, from mid-morning to near midnight, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara trudged to city scenes covered in blood and bullet casings.
Just two miles apart on Lake Street – an area long the vibrant immigrant-dense commercial corridor of Minneapolis – 12 people were shot in spaces where the homeless, drug addicted and destitute congregate.
One of the shootings took place near the Interstate 35 exit ramp where drug dealing and drug use are carried out in broad daylight. The other shooting took place at an unsanctioned homeless encampment on the property of Hamoudi Sabri, a prominent Minneapolis landlord who has defied city officials and refused to shut it down…