Judicial Watch has filed a lawsuit against the City of Detroit to force the release of records on how many dogs and cats were euthanized by Detroit Animal Care and Control while Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed ran the city’s health department.

The lawsuit, Judicial Watch, Inc. v. City of Detroit (No. 26-018170), follows an August 14 FOIA request and an October 7 follow-up that the city never answered.

Judicial Watch is demanding annual euthanasia totals from 2010 through 2025, plus every directive, memorandum, and protocol that Animal Care and Control received from El-Sayed’s office between January 2015 and December 2017.

The organization also wants the numbers after he left, so voters can compare.

As The Gateway Pundit reported in August, El-Sayed’s tenure as executive director and health officer saw nearly 4,680 dogs and cats put down.

In 2015 alone, the facility killed 1,988 dogs and 272 cats.

Former officer Brittany Roberts called the place a “dog slaughterhouse,” describing overcrowded, unsanitary conditions filled with feces, blood, and vomit, animals that were not scanned for microchips, and inadequate care.

One dog named Coco was killed by mistake while it was supposed to be in quarantine.

The city settled her whistleblower suit for $63,000.

El-Sayed has said he inherited a mess and later claimed a “humane-care turnaround.”

“The public deserves answers about Detroit’s animal euthanasia practices during El-Sayed’s tenure,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement. “With an election approaching, Detroit should stop stonewalling and disclose these records so voters can examine the facts for themselves.”

El-Sayed is a practicing Muslim.

Under his religion, dogs are not seen as man’s best friend; they are considered “impure” and “dirty.”

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