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获伯尼·桑德斯背书的密歇根州联邦参议员竞选领跑者删除旧帖，其“撤资警方”言论重新浮出水面
作者：亚历克斯·米勒，福克斯新闻
视频曝光：民主党参议员候选人支持“撤资警方”言论，与近期否认自相矛盾
密歇根州联邦参议院民主党候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔赛义德在竞选期间一直否认自己曾呼吁撤资警方，但在一段被挖出的视频中，他曾质疑：“警方真的需要配枪吗？”（图片来源：YouTube/密歇根在线 – 2020年10月22日）
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在密歇根州混乱的民主党初选中领跑的候选人多次表示，他从未呼吁过从警方部门削减财政拨款，但多年前被挖出的采访和视频却道出了不同的真相。
阿卜杜勒·埃尔赛义德正在密歇根州竞选民主党提名，对手是民主党籍联邦众议员黑利·史蒂文斯。他在竞选联邦参议员期间一直坚定表示，自己从未想过削减警方部门的财政拨款，甚至称自己已删除了当年支持相关理念的旧推文。
但在五年前发布于密歇根大学、题为《作为公共卫生问题的系统性种族主义》的视频中，埃尔赛义德辩称，为警方提供资金以及他们使用武力的行为，是系统性种族主义的一个方面，同时也构成了公共卫生问题。
民主党内战蔓延至密歇根州，进步派在这场高风险联邦参议员对决中迎来迄今最严峻考验
密歇根州联邦参议院民主党候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔赛义德在竞选期间一直否认自己曾呼吁撤资警方，但在一段被挖出的视频中，他曾质疑：“警方真的需要配枪吗？”（图片来源：莎拉·赖斯/盖蒂图片社）
“我们为什么要在配枪人员身上投入如此之多，却在那些有能力投资年轻人、通过生计赋能民众、帮助他们过上最好生活的人身上投入更少？”埃尔赛义德质问道。
“警方真的需要配枪吗？我们真的需要这么多警察力量吗？”他继续说道，“因此，如果我们扪心自问，公共资金如何使用、流向何处、来自何处，我们就需要做出更好的决策，投资那些根除贫困的举措，而非投资用 policing（警务）来应对贫困。”
这段视频与美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）的一篇报道相呼应，该报道发现，在2020年“撤资警方”运动的高潮时期，埃尔赛义德曾持相关立场。
在2020年6月接受底特律公共广播电台采访时，埃尔赛义德辩称自己从未直接说过“撤资警方”，但他表示，该运动背后的理念很难在推特上用一句话说清楚。
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“所以你们会注意到，我没说过‘撤资警方’，我只是描述了需要做的事情，”埃尔赛义德说，“而且我确实认为，我们应该专注于描述或解释，而非在某个标签背后摇摆不定。”
“撤资警方，就是不再投入资金用于监禁他人或在街头杀人，而是更多地投入资金用于教育、赋能社区，让社区有能力应对我们放任其在太多社区滋生的系统性贫困。”
埃尔赛义德试图将自己的立场包装为“重新为警方提供资金”，以确保纳税人的钱不会流向“购买战争物资、在我们街头发动战争”。
“对我来说，我们称之为什么并不重要，重要的是我们如何解决现实中的问题，”他当时说道。
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埃尔赛义德的竞选发言人罗克西·里奇纳在给福克斯新闻数字频道的一份声明中表示，他在担任密歇根州韦恩县卫生、人力与退伍军人服务部门主任期间，曾与执法部门密切合作，“正如实际经验总会带来的那样，他的观点已经变得更加细致入微。”
“一个简单的词永远不足以充分解释我们为应对刑事司法体系这一复杂挑战所需的改革，”她说。
“正如2023年他在韦恩县所做的那样，阿卜杜勒认为，我们需要改善执法人员的招聘、留用和退休福利，这样执法人员才能来自他们所服务的社区，”里奇纳继续说道，“他还认为，我们必须摒弃军事化警务，通过《乔治·弗洛伊德警务正义法案》，选择社区暴力干预、心理健康响应和公共卫生改进措施，以减少暴力，保护社区和执法人员的生命。”
尽管如此，在2026年中期选举这场最重要的竞选之一中处于领先地位的埃尔赛义德，一直在试图澄清自己在该问题上的立场。
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他和史蒂文斯都在争夺即将退休的民主党籍参议员加里·彼得斯留下的席位，而共和党正急切地想要拿下这个席位。
更广泛地说，埃尔赛义德是涌入民主党党内的进步派浪潮的一员，获得了参议员伯尼·桑德斯（佛蒙特州独立人士）、联邦众议员亚历山德里亚·奥卡西奥-科特兹（纽约州民主党人）等进步派重量级人物的背书。
然而，尽管有这些支持，埃尔赛义德还是无法摆脱多年前的发帖和采访带来的影响。
就在上周，在接受美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）的凯西·亨特采访时，埃尔赛义德被追问其旧帖内容，他回应称“已经删除了所有推文，因为我不想它们像这样被断章取义。”
他将这个问题归咎于“华盛顿的点击诱饵”。
“我认为这场关于2020年以及推文将如何发挥作用的辩论，在你想要获得点击量的美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）上确实很受欢迎，”埃尔赛义德说，“但它们并没有那么有效，没有人真正在密歇根州的街头或社区里问过我这些问题。”
亚历克斯·米勒是福克斯新闻数字频道的撰稿人，负责报道美国参议院事务。
WATCH: Surfaced videos of Dem Senate candidate backing ‘defund the police’ contradict recent denials
July 8, 2026 12:47pm EDT / Fox News
The Michigan Senate front-runner backed by Bernie Sanders deleted old tweets as his ‘defund the police’ comments resurfaced
By Alex Miller, Fox News
WATCH: Surfaced videos of Dem Senate candidate backing ‘defund the police’ contradict recent denials
Michigan Senate Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed has spent his campaign denying he wanted to defund the police, but in an unearthed clip he questioned, “Do police really need to use guns?” (Credit: YouTube/Michigan Online – Oct. 22, 2020)
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The front-runner in Michigan’s messy Democratic primary has repeatedly said he never called for defunding the police, but unearthed interviews and video from years earlier tell a different story.
Abdul El-Sayed, who is running for the Democratic nomination in Michigan against Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., has been adamant throughout his push for the Senate that he never wanted to strip tax dollars from police departments, going so far as to say he deleted old tweets embracing the ideology.
But in a video for the University of Michigan published five years ago titled, “Systemic Racism as a Public Health Issue,” El-Sayed argued that funding police and their use of force was a facet of systemic racism and constituted a public health issue.
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Michigan Senate Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed has spent his campaign denying that he wanted to defund the police, but in an unearthed clip, he asked, “Do police really need to use guns?”(Sarah Rice/Getty Images)
“Why are we investing so much in people with guns and less in people with the means of being able to invest in young folks, empower folks through their livelihoods, and empower them to live their best lives?” El-Sayed questioned.
“Do police really need to use guns? Do we need as much of a police force?” he continued. “And so, if we ask ourselves about how we spend money in the public, where that money goes, where it comes from, we need to make a lot better decisions about investing in the things that root out poverty, rather than investing in policing poverty.”
The video follows a report from CNN that found during the height of the “defund the police” movement in 2020, El-Sayed leaned into it.
During an interview with Detroit Public Radio from June 2020, El-Sayed argued that he never directly called to “defund the police,” but he contended that the principles behind the movement were difficult to express online in a tweet.
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“So, you’ll note, I didn’t say ‘defund the police,’ I just described what needed to be done,” El-Sayed said. “And I do think we need to be really focused on describing or explaining rather than sort of hedging on one side or the other behind a hashtag.”
“Defunding the police is disinvesting in the means of incarcerating someone or killing them on the streets and investing more in the means of educating and empowering and engaging communities with the means of being able to take on systemic poverty that we’ve allowed to fester in too many communities.”
El-Sayed tried to pitch his stance as “refunding” the police to ensure taxpayer dollars don’t flow to “buy war materiel to wage war in our streets.”
“What we call that is, to me, less important than what we do on the problems on the ground,” he said at the time.
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Chicago police officers patrol downtown on Aug. 26, 2025, in Chicago.(Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Roxie Richner, a campaign spokesperson for El-Sayed, said in a statement to Fox News Digital that he worked closely with law enforcement during his time as director of Health, Human, and Veterans Services for Wayne County, Michigan, and that “as hands-on experience always allows, his perspective has become more nuanced.”
“One simple word has never been enough to fully explain the reforms we need for a challenge as complex as our criminal legal system,” she said.
“Just as he did in Wayne County in 2023, Abdul believes we need to improve law enforcement recruitment, retention, and retirement funding so that law enforcement officers come from the communities they serve,” Richner continued. “He also believes we must reject militarized policing, pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, and opt for community violence intervention, behavioral health response, and improvements in public health to reduce violence and protect the lives of communities and law enforcement alike.”
Still, El-Sayed has sought to clean up his position on the matter as he runs ahead in one of the most consequential races of the 2026 midterm cycle.
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He and Stevens are vying to replace retiring Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., for a seat Republicans are hungry to flip.
And more broadly, El-Sayed is part of the progressive wave that is flooding into the Democratic Party, sporting endorsements from progressive heavyweights like Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.
The candidate, however, can’t seem to shake off his posts and interviews from years ago despite this support.
Just last week during an interview with CNN’s Kasie Hunt, El-Sayed was pressed on his old posts and shot back that he “deleted all the tweets, because I didn’t want them to be taken out of context like this.”
He chalked up the issue to “clickbait in D.C.”
“I think this debate about 2020 and the ways that tweets are going to play are really nice on CNN if you want to get clicks,” El-Sayed said. “They’re not that effective, and nobody really asks me about them on the streets or in communities in Michigan.”
Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.
