Some 42 percent said that they do not support the movement.
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While support of the movement is rising among young white Americans, 66 percent of them surveyed in August said the movement’s “rhetoric … encourages violence against police”.
The Black Lives Matter movement has been feted repeatedly at the White House and honored at the Democratic National Convention. “Because of how they’ve treated Blacks over the years, of course they (Blacks) don’t trust them (police) and I know for a fact that some of the things the police do are illegal”. Turner, who has been an educator for more than seven years, says he can not stand by their decision, saying, “It was sort of bittersweet to leave that, but I’m a person of integrity and that call for a moratorium on charter schools I think is just wrong, and misleading to a lot of people, so I had to step away from it”.
How is violence against police not a deal-breaker for these people? Do they support violence against the police? Only 40% of millennial white Americans saw recent killings as part of a trend, compared to more 51% of Latinos, 61% of Asian Americans, and 82% of African Americans. Young Asian-Americans and Hispanics are also more likely to trust Clinton than Trump on both.
However, the study notes that most white youths also think that the movement’s rhetoric encourages violence against law enforcement, even as most black youth think that it does not.
The survey also indicates that a majority of white, black, Asian and Hispanic young adults now support the movement calling for accountability for police in the deaths of African-Americans.
“Stepping outside of that banner personally meant that I needed to step down from a leadership role and any affiliation with Black Lives Matter if I’m going to do a great job in education and fighting for educational justice”, Turned said.
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Respondents were first selected randomly using address-based sampling methods, and later interviewed online or by phone.
