Abdul
El-Sayed has tried to
scrub his anti-police posts and dodge
questions about whether he supports law enforcement... but
unfortunately for him the internet lives forever.
In a
newly discovered video, El-Sayed calls police officers racist, only furthering
his brand as the anti-police candidate in this messy three-way primary.
Read more
here
or highlights below.
Fox News
June 18,
2026
Abdul
El-Sayed, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan, once accused the
state’s police of profiling in a campaign speech.
"We
have a system of policing that seems to want to police on top of people rather
than police with people," El-Sayed said during a gubernatorial bid in 2018
in an address before Harvard.
"The
probability of closing a murder in Detroit is extremely low. And yet the cops
will pick on you because you look a particular kind of way."
El-Sayed’s
comments persist despite efforts to scrub his social media of posts championing
criticisms against law enforcement, providing a look at his views on Michigan
police that preceded the widespread criticisms of police that would emerge in
the "Defund the Police" movement.
[...]
He’s also
called for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
But, like
most Democrats, El-Sayed has been backtracking from criticisms about local
police — retreating from the "defund the police" stance that rose to
prominence in the wake of the death of George Floyd in 2020. Although the
movement rallied Democrats around increased accountability measures for law
enforcement officers, it became a political liability following crime spikes in
cities that embraced the idea like Minneapolis, Portland and Seattle.
El-Sayed
has taken pains to clear ties to the movement on his social media.
"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. Fixing that is what the
#Defund movement is about," El-Sayed wrote in one June 2020 post on X,
just several weeks after the death of George Floyd.
He has
since deleted the post and declined to explain why he removed them.
Although many of his posts about defunding the police have been removed, some of El-Sayed’s comments from his gubernatorial bid demonstrate that his concern about police behavior preceded George Floyd’s death.
[...]
El-Sayed’s campaign did not
immediately respond to a request for comment.
