Hasan Pike Laughed About ICE Agents Breaking Their Hips — Days After Calling a Jewish Suburb a 'KKK Neighborhood'

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Hasan Pike Laughed About ICE Agents Breaking Their Hips — Days After Calling a Jewish Suburb a 'KKK Neighborhood'

Hasan Piker was on stage in Minneapolis last week at a sold-out event. Rep. Ilhan Omar was part of the program. Piker started talking about federal agents getting hurt during the immigration crackdown in the city earlier this year.

"We saw a lot of funny compilations as well, you know," he said. "A lot of hip bones were broken. 'Officer Martinez down.'"

The crowd laughed.

Agents in Minneapolis had fireworks and other objects thrown at them by protesters during the crackdown. Piker thought the injuries made for good material. Homeland Security put out a statement blasting him for it. As far as anyone can tell, Piker hasn't taken it back.

A few days later, he found a new target.

Abdul El-Sayed, the Democrats' Senate nominee in Michigan, had volunteers knocking on doors in West Bloomfield, a Detroit suburb with a large Jewish community. Piker, who has campaigned with El-Sayed, went on his livestream and said it was "the equivalent of going to that, like, KKK neighborhood to stump for a Black candidate."

Then he kept going. "It's racial supremacy. It's Jewish supremacy."

So in one week, Piker laughed about federal agents breaking bones and compared a neighborhood full of Jewish families to the Klan.

Even Democrats couldn't let that one go. Sen. Elissa Slotkin called the remarks "anti-semitic, divisive and deeply offensive." State Rep. Noah Arbit, who represents West Bloomfield, called it "insane, unhinged, repugnant and hateful rhetoric." The head of the Anti-Defamation League condemned it too.

El-Sayed, the candidate Piker has been out campaigning for, called the comments "inappropriate."

That was the strongest word he could find for a man who called his own state's Jewish voters Klan members.

It's the same Piker whose ties to El-Sayed helped push Rep. Haley Stevens, a Democrat, to endorse Republican Mike Rogers this weekend. She said she couldn't support a candidate "standing with Hasan Piker."

There's a family connection, too. The other thing Stevens couldn't stomach was a Rebellion PAC ad blaming American aid to Israel for what Michigan families pay for groceries. El-Sayed wouldn't condemn it. The man behind Rebellion PAC is Cenk Uygur, founder of The Young Turks, and Hasan Piker's uncle.

So the uncle paid for the ad, the nephew campaigned for El-Sayed, and El-Sayed wouldn't really stand up to either one.

This week showed exactly what Stevens meant.

Piker has millions of followers and gets booked by Democrats who want his audience. Ilhan Omar shared a stage with him. Abdul El-Sayed campaigned with him. Then he joked about agents' broken hips and called Jewish families racial supremacists, and the guy he's campaigning for went with "inappropriate."

Michigan votes tomorrow.


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