Newly resurfaced videos show Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed discussing police funding and whether officers should have guns, contradicting his recent denials on the issue. In the posted footage, El-Sayed appears to question whether police need guns and to raise concerns about how policing is funded, language that critics interpret as support for “defund the police.” The reporting characterizes the clips as “unearthed” and notes that they conflict with statements he has made more recently denying that he backed defunding police. The sources frame the dispute as a contradiction between earlier remarks captured on video and later claims about his position. The coverage does not indicate that the underlying issue—El-Sayed’s stance on police funding and police equipment—has been resolved, but it highlights how the newly circulated recordings are being used to challenge his public statements.