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A federal judge Monday dismissed a lawsuit filed by residents of a Minneapolis homeless encampment that's been

Residents of Camp Nenookaasi sued Mayor Jacob Frey, claiming he intentionally inflicted emotional distress by ordering the camps cleared. After the 

The plaintiffs also said they lost valuable possessions, including vital documents, during those closures.  

In his dismissal, Judge Eric Tostrud wrote that no reasonable jury would find the mayor's decisions to clear the encampments to be "extreme and outrageous."

In court documents, plaintiffs described Nenookaasi as a “community-based healing camp rooted in Native religious and cultural practices, drawing upon evidence-based harm reduction strategies to meaningfully intervene in cycles of addiction and houselessness.”

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Residents of Camp Nenookaasi sued Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, claiming he intentionally inflicted emotional distress by ordering the camp of unhoused, mostly Native people cleared multiple times. 

Judge dismisses Camp Nenookaasi lawsuit against Minneapolis Mayor Frey

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