El-Sayed apologizes for his response to attack on Michigan synagogue

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a former Detroit health director and the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan, apologized on Saturday for his response to the March 12 attack on Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Mich.The attacker, who rammed the synagogue with a car and shot at it, reportedly lost relatives in Israeli strikes in Lebanon. The Israeli military said that two of his brothers, who were killed in the strikes, were members of Hezbollah.El-Sayed decried the attack at the time and said that “violence is a cycle” and that “hurt people hurt people,” CNN reported.“My comments might have been misconstrued to be justifying something I did not intend to justify,” El-Sayed told reporters on Saturday, according to the outlet. “To anybody who feels like my comments might have been hurtful, I’m really sorry. That was not my intention.”“We condemned that terrorist attack. We condemned it outright,” he said, according to CNN.…
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Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed apologized on Saturday for his previous comments regarding the March 12 attack on Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan. El-Sayed had initially stated that “violence is a cycle” and “hurt people hurt people” after an attacker, reportedly with relatives killed in Israeli strikes, rammed and shot at the synagogue. He clarified, “My comments might have been misconstrued to be justifying something I did not intend to justify.” El-Sayed added that he was attempting to provide context but acknowledged, “it wasn’t the time for context, and you don’t ever want to trample somebody’s pain.” Republican opponent Mike Rogers criticized the apology as disingenuous, stating, “It’s too little, too late, Abdul.”
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