CLEVELAND — Did Cleveland's Mayor unfairly target a bar on the East Bank of the Flats after a shooting following the Cleveland Browns home opener?

Through a public records request, News 5 Investigators learned Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb texted his closest advisers within an hour of the incident:

"Use every dept to shut this place down. If we get sued, we get sued."

City of Cleveland

City of Cleveland

City of Cleveland

City of Cleveland

City of Cleveland

Play Bar & Grill was boarded up and shut down by the next morning.

"What is troubling to me here is that if the shooting took place outside of the bar, then there is a high probability it had nothing to do with the bar whatsoever," Subodh Chandra said. Chandra is a prominent civil rights attorney, former federal prosecutor and for

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