‘Over 4,000 dogs and cats killed’: Abdul El-Sayed’s ‘pet massacre’ record goes viral

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Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is facing scrutiny over his 2015-16 tenure as Detroit's health director, when the city's animal control department euthanized thousands of dogs and cats. Records show 4,680 animals euthanized during the surrounding period, with the live-release rate around 20-26% when El-Sayed inherited the agency, following a 2015 whistleblower lawsuit describing filthy conditions and a former employee calling it a "slaughterhouse."

By late 2016 the live-release rate had climbed to roughly 61-62%, an improvement El-Sayed's campaign cites as evidence he fixed the operation, crediting new leadership hires, pay raises and a move to a bigger facility. Detroit settled the whistleblower's lawsuit for $63,000 in 2016, and a federal judge separately blocked warrantless dog seizures amid another lawsuit.

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A candidate touting a tripled survival rate while skating past the years animals died on his watch is doing ordinary political math, not villainy — but the campaign's silence on the raw death toll speaks louder than its press release. PETA's absence from the pile-on is its own small mercy.

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