Sixty-seven percent of voters said they support the protests. Poll analyst Tim Malloy said we’re currently in the country's “racial reckoning.”
“What jumps out of this is that 57% of voters have a favorable opinion of Black Lives Matter, while 30% have an unfavorable one,” he said, “and that comes on the heels of a more than 2-1 decision by voters that discrimination against Black people is a serious problem.”
A majority — 66% — disprove of chokeholds used by police, but more than half of all respondents opposed cutting funding for police departments and shifting it to other departments. Eighty percent opposed getting rid of current police departments.
Malloy said the call for Confederate statues to be removed from public display has gained support over the years. More than half of voters want Confederate statues removed — that’s up from three years ago, when only 39% wanted those same statues removed.
Meanwhile, protecting journalists fell along party lines: Eighty percent of Democrats said journalists are not protected enough, while 70% of Republicans believe those journalists have enough protections already.
As for the possible threat of police brutality, Malloy said the racial divide is very clear.
“About a quarter of Americans think they could be victims of police brutality, and 74% say no. But you gotta look at the stark difference in race: Seventy-four percent of Black voters and 32% of Hispanic voters, they worry about being the victim of police brutality, so it is clearly along racial lines,” he said.