President Joe Biden’s remarks before and after the conviction of Derek Chauvin for George Floyd’s murder were clear and decisive. He called the evidence “overwhelming,” said he was “praying that the verdict is the right verdict” and argued for the country to come together following a verdict that was a […] Read more »
Widespread agreement with Chauvin verdict
Three in four Americans think the jury reached the right verdict in which former police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murder in the death of George Floyd, a majority view that spans across all racial, age and partisan groups. … Reaction to the verdict among White Americans is […] Read more »
Nearly 70% of Americans Find Chauvin Murder Verdict Justified
Results of a new nationwide University of Massachusetts Amherst / WCVB poll released today show that a wide majority of Americans polled in the days immediately following the Derek Chauvin trial believe that the guilty verdict against the former Minneapolis police officer in the murder of George Floyd was justified […] Read more »
What The Chauvin Trial Verdict Tells Us
… The verdict was guilty on all counts. A very extraordinary story, a killer cop convicted; paired with an all too ordinary story, an unarmed Black man killed. The bipartisan consensus that Chauvin was guilty is another extraordinary result. But, that does not mean that we as a nation are […] Read more »
Study Shows Anti-Racist Messages Hurt Democrats
Beginning about a decade ago, the Democratic Party went through two important changes related to racism. The first is that the backlash against Barack Obama made far more white liberals aware of how deeply racial resentment inspired American conservatism. (Black people had by and large realized this all along.) The […] Read more »
Most Americans support greater scrutiny of police as discrimination concerns persist
Six in 10 Americans say the country should do more to hold police accountable for mistreatment of Black people, far outpacing concerns about those measures interfering with how law enforcement does its job, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll. The nationwide survey also finds that concerns over treatment of […] Read more »