A new poll finds that a majority of Americans support the Black Lives Matter movement but oppose calls to redirect funding from police departments and to remove Confederate statues.
, conducted on July 12-15 in a survey of 1,006 people, found that 63% of Americans support the Black Lives Matter movement and 69% believe Black people and other minorities “receive equal treatment as white people in the criminal justice system.”
Since 2014, the portion of Americans who believe Black people and other minorities don’t receive equal treatment has increased by 15%, and this year “marks the first time a majority of white people has held this view,”The partisan split on this issue has widened, with 80% of Republicans supporting the viewpoint that police treat white and Black people equally, compared with just 20% of Democrats.
Americans are also against redirecting police funding , and paying reparations to Black Americans whose ancestors were enslaved .George Floyd’s death and the wave of protests that followed has led to the removal of Confederate statues all across the country and a reckoning about the use of police force. Activists have also pushed for a series of reforms, including “
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