AP-NORC poll: Support for racial injustice protests declineshttps://t.co/vPSJ1mVkqx
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) September 24, 2020
A new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds Americans’ support for racial justice protests has dropped dramatically over several months.
While 54% of Americans approved of the protests in June, the poll finds that just 39% approve today. 44% disapprove.
The poll was conducted Sept. 11-14, before the announcement in Louisville, KY, that only one officer would be charged in the Breonna Taylor case, and not for her actual death. (To read fact-checks on claims about the Breonna Taylor case that have been pushed relentlessly by the mainstream media since her death but have turned out to be false, click here.)
That announcement sparked a fresh round of protests, with a man being arrested during the protests that followed for allegedly shooting two police officers in retaliation for Taylor’s death.
The poll’s findings did not surprise many social media users:
Weird.
— .💀.Badaisè (@_A_Badaise) September 24, 2020
How did rioting and screaming at people minding their own business fail to win hearts and minds? https://t.co/CjUOn7GVwb
— Murph Doggydog (@PanterMurphy93) September 24, 2020
Riots, arson, beatings, disruption, devastation, cop shootings, etc, have a way of doing that to causes.
— Sophiestications (@Sophiesticatio2) September 24, 2020
Not sure which of their tactics offend more…when they rake grandma and grandpa’s dinner onto the ground and pour a beer on them, when they burn the sweet guys store to the ground or loot the single mom’s cafe or flower store and left them penniless? Of course it ain’t working.
— Patti Myers (@Hey_its_Patti) September 24, 2020
Wait, BLM is losing support because of some nationwide looting, arson, assaults, blocked highways, restaurant customers hassled , and cops getting attacked and shot? No way!
— Dillon (@000Dillon000) September 24, 2020
That’s not what @RepMaxineWaters says pic.twitter.com/lpfqbmDhSR
— HeisenbergHattie (@HBergHattie) September 24, 2020
Maybe burning things down, beating people up, intimidating anyone trying to record them, bullying random people in restaurants, and blocking freeways while shouting obscenities has caused many to kinda doubt this has anything at all to do with “injustice”
— KeepCalmAndDrawl (@FormerlyFormer) September 24, 2020