El-Sayed: Judge Me by Actions, Not Defund the Police Tweets I Deleted So They Wouldn't Be Taken Out of Context

On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Arena,” Democratic Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed said that he should be judged by actions funding juvenile detention employees and not tweets he deleted in support of defunding them and “I deleted all the tweets because I didn’t want them to be taken out of context like this so that you could distract from the actual conversation that Michiganders really want to have about what they want their leadership to actually fight for them to do.” Host Kasie Hunt asked, “I also wanted to ask you about some of the tweets that you deleted as you were in the course of this race, just before, around this question of defunding the police, this is also something likely to come up in a general election, should you win this primary. Do you stand by what you had previously said, that police — in support of defunding the police, or do you believe police should be funded?” El-Sayed responded, “So, Kasie, in my time leading Wayne County’s Department of Health, Human and Veteran Services, I had the responsibility of rebuilding a juvenile detention facility. I raised salaries 35% for workers there to make sure that the The post El-Sayed: Judge Me by Actions, Not Defund the Police Tweets I Deleted So They Wouldn’t Be Taken Out of Context appeared first on Breitbart .
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