"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, declared Abdul El-Sayed in 2020. The police have become standing armies we deploy against our own people, read another one of the thousands of tweets deleted by the progressive Democrat, who was also a CNN contributor at one point."
"From Kaczynski and Steck's report: A CNN KFile review of comments El-Sayed made from 2020 to 2021 found he repeatedly said US police departments were overfunded and promoted what he called the refund movement a plan to redirect taxpayer money from police budgets to social services for schools, libraries, parks and clinics. A CNN tally of his deleted tweets found he posted about a dozen times in support of the defund the police movement."
A Michigan Democrat seeking the party's U.S. Senate nomination deleted past tweets that expressed support for defunding the police. The deleted messages argued that many U.S. cities overfund police departments while underfunding schools, health departments, recreation, and housing, and described redirecting police funds to social services as the aim of the #Defund movement. The candidate previously promoted a "refund" plan to shift taxpayer money from police budgets to schools, libraries, parks, and clinics. Past campaign materials included a 20-page criminal justice reform document proposing training and accountability improvements, sentencing and bail reform, more public defenders, and reentry assistance.
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