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Hamoudi Sabri, Defiant Still
Hamoudi Sabri, who turned his Minneapolis property on E. Lake Street into a homeless encampment site in July, was in the news plenty this past week. Gunfire wounded seven people on Sabri’s land on Monday night, and the city has filed a suit against Sabri seeking a court order to shut down the camp.
But who is Sabri? Shubhanjana Das of Sahan Journal provided this helpful explainer of the man who’s set himself up as a champion of his unhoused neighbors, as well as a fierce critic of Mayor Jacob Frey and (as anyone on the receiving end of his many press releases can attest) the local press.
His experience as a Palestinian informs his activism. “I was displaced from my home as a child,” Sabri tells Das. “I lived in rubble for a month, we were looking for food.”…