/// by ELIANA JONSHON OCT 14 2026 ---------------------- https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!41r6!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8e27c3e8-f5f2-46e1-a52b-29fe3bda755b_1707x1118.jpeg Abdul El-Sayed (Sarah Rice/Getty Images) El-Sayed also says he’ll “work hand in hand with law enforcement” if Michigan voters send him to the U.S. Senate. But in previously unreported videos, El-Sayed said his “heart races” when he sees cops because they’ve “never” helped him and suggested police officers should not carry guns, the Free Beacon’s Chuck Ross reports. El-Sayed made the remarks on two podcasts in 2020 and 2021, at the height of the Black Lives Matter-inspired movement to defund the police. “In my experience, the police have never been out there to help me,” he said in a Feb. 15, 2021 interview, recounting a conversation with his grandfather, who told him “the police are out there to help you.” “That’s never been my experience. So, when I see cops, when I get pulled over to this day, right, my heart races.” Months earlier, in June 2020, El-Sayed recalled his experience living in England and indicated that American police officers should be disarmed like their British counterparts. “We are the only country in the world that allows our police to police us like they were a military. And, I lived in the U.K. while I was in grad school, and in the U.K., their cops don’t have guns,” said El-Sayed, who studied at Oxford. “I think we really need to be asking when did we allow our police to turn into a military that could have its way with us?” “Those remarks could reinforce Republican claims about El-Sayed’s ‘radical’ views on policing and the criminal justice system,” writes Ross. “El-Sayed said in 2020 that ‘we do need to defund the police,’ CNN reported. He has also called for sending fewer people to jail and reducing the number of people currently in jail through controversial policies to end cash bail, and defer prosecutions on certain crimes.” El-Sayed now touts endorsements from police unions on his campaign website, but in the 2020 interview, he bemoaned their influence, saying, “We do have to rethink the power of police unions, we do have to rethink the ways that they’ve been able to sink their claws into politicians and scare them into any kind of action.” READ MORE: Unearthed Video: Abdul El-Sayed Trashed Police as ‘a Military That Could Have Its Way With Us,’ Called To Disarm Them, Said Police Never Helped Him []{} Additional reading: Abdul El-Sayed described himself as “an immigrant from North Africa” at the Michigan Democratic Party’s spring 2017 convention, video footage shows. It’s the most recent example of El-Sayed suggesting he is something other than an American-born citizen. The Democrat said in 2014 and 2016 that he held dual U.S.-Egyptian citizenship, something his campaign now denies. The new faculty hires Harvard has pointed to as evidence of its “commitment to combating antisemitism and anti-Israeli bias” are scheduled to appear next month at what is being billed as a “symposium and book launch” on “Jewish Anti-Zionism.” Texas Senate hopeful James Talarico recently told Fox News that he’s against “trans athletes playing in girls’ sports if it endangers safety or fairness” and would “absolutely” vote to ban sex-change surgeries for minors. Two days later, he privately apologized to the head of the trans activist group Human Rights Campaign, Kelley Robinson, who said Talarico’s “comments got clipped so his overall approach to the issue wasn’t clear, and that he believed in most cases that there are no safety or fairness issues when trans kids play sports,” the Washington Sun reported. In the midterm election’s closing stages, the Democrat-backed Senate candidate in Nebraska, Dan Osborn, is facing an “unusual” exodus of senior staffers amid “a series of damaging leaks,” according to Punchbowl News. The departing staffers include former communications director Colleen Craig, who was caught on tape claiming Osborn recruited accused rapist Graham Platner to run for Senate in Maine. Oklahoma senator James Lankford recently met with the speaker of Lebanon’s parliament, Nabih Berri, who is the leader of a Hezbollah-aligned political party. Berri told him that there was an “extension of [his] party in Michigan that he just initiated,” according to Lankford, who said “myself and my team, when we walked out, we all looked at each other and said, ‘Did I hear that correctly?’” Just what the world needs: Hillary Clinton is launching a podcast series, High Stakes, alongside the tech journalist Kara Swisher. It will “break down the race to control the House and the Senate in weekly episodes that run through mid-November,” according to the New York Times. Check out our full Wednesday lineup below. Troy Jackson Cosponsored Bill Backed by Son’s Lobbying Firm Allowing ‘Predatory’ Loan Companies To Skirt Maine’s Interest Rate Caps Abdul El-Sayed Defended ‘Friend’ Jailed for Funding Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in Since-Deleted Substack Article Unearthed Video: Abdul El-Sayed Trashed Police as ‘a Military That Could Have Its Way With Us,’ Called To Disarm Them, Said Police Never Helped Him Abdul El-Sayed Called Himself an ‘Immigrant From North Africa’ During 2017 Michigan Dem Convention Speech Harvard’s New Hires Will Headline ‘Jewish Anti-Zionism’ Event Girl Talk: Kara Swisher Woos Hillary Clinton Amid Lesbian Love Drama Thanks for reading the Washington Free Beacon! Subscribe for free to receive new posts. Subscribed