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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsABC/IPSOS: 74% of Americans view George Floyd's death as an underlying racial injustice problem
This is a significant shift from a similar question asked just six years ago.By
Kendall Karson
June 5, 2020, 5:31 AM
Nearly three-fourths of Americans view the death of George Floyd at the hands of a white police officer as a sign of an underlying racial injustice problem, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds, a significant shift from a similar question asked just six years ago.
This poll shows a more than 30-point increase in the belief that recent events reflect a broader issue over racial injustice from an ABC News/Washington Post poll from December 2014, four months after the shooting of Michael Brown, an 18-year black man, by a white cop, and five months after the death of Eric Garner, a black man, who died after being put in a chokehold by a white officer. In the 2014 poll, 43% of Americans said those instances showed signs of a broader problem, while 51% called it an isolated incident.
In the new ABC News/Ipsos poll, which was conducted by Ipsos in partnership with ABC News using Ipsos Knowledge Panel, only 26% believe the incident is an isolated one.
Majorities of whites (70%), blacks (94%), Hispanics (75%), Democrats (92%), Republicans (55%) and independents (71%) agree that what happened to Floyd exemplifies a systemic rift between law enforcement and black communities in the country.
This poll shows a more than 30-point increase in the belief that recent events reflect a broader issue over racial injustice from an ABC News/Washington Post poll from December 2014, four months after the shooting of Michael Brown, an 18-year black man, by a white cop, and five months after the death of Eric Garner, a black man, who died after being put in a chokehold by a white officer. In the 2014 poll, 43% of Americans said those instances showed signs of a broader problem, while 51% called it an isolated incident.
In the new ABC News/Ipsos poll, which was conducted by Ipsos in partnership with ABC News using Ipsos Knowledge Panel, only 26% believe the incident is an isolated one.
Majorities of whites (70%), blacks (94%), Hispanics (75%), Democrats (92%), Republicans (55%) and independents (71%) agree that what happened to Floyd exemplifies a systemic rift between law enforcement and black communities in the country.
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ABC/IPSOS: 74% of Americans view George Floyd's death as an underlying racial injustice problem (Original Post)
PA Democrat
Jun 2020
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ECSkeptic
(62 posts)1. Buries the lede...
...The true story:
26% of Americans are dumb as a bag of hammers. The remaining 74% are able to find their own ass with or without a flashlight.
Freddie
(9,258 posts)2. And the rest are racist assholes
crickets
(25,959 posts)8. Most of them Republicans. nt
empedocles
(15,751 posts)3. Does cut into, or weaken, the 40% trump support
dalton99a
(81,426 posts)4. 26% are beyond the reach of reason or decency.
Dustlawyer
(10,494 posts)6. They are the ones it has to happen to them before they will acknowledge it is a real problem.
LizBeth
(9,952 posts)5. That is pretty significant. That is a little hopeful.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,837 posts)7. K&R