Michigan Senate Hopeful Backed by Tlaib Scrubs ‘Defund the Police’ Posts
A progressive Michigan Senate candidate endorsed by Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., has deleted a series of old social media posts supporting the “defund the police” movement as his campaign gains national attention…
A progressive Michigan Senate candidate endorsed by Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., has deleted a series of old social media posts supporting the “defund the police” movement as his campaign gains national attention.
According to Fox News, Abdul El-Sayed, a former Detroit health director and current Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, reportedly made more than a dozen posts between 2020 and 2021 expressing support for defunding police departments.
The posts were quietly removed from his social media accounts as first reported by CNN.
“Most major US cities spend WAY TOO MUCH on police departments to police poverty & WAY TOO LITTLE on public schools, health departments, recreation departments, & housing to eliminate poverty,” El-Sayed wrote on X in June 2020, following the death of George Floyd. “Fixing that is what the #Defund movement is about.”
In another post, he added, “The police have become standing armies we deploy against our own people.”
El-Sayed echoed similar views during a 2020 interview, saying, “When we make a choice to invest in policing in a majority black community, rather than to invest in public schools, that choice is influenced by systemic racism.” He went on to describe the “defund” debate as “a question of asking how do we right-size government away from the racist ideologies that have led