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Americans evenly divided in support of Black Lives Matter: Poll

Wednesday, 17 November 2021 12:09 AM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 17 November 2021 12:09 AM ]

Demonstrators hold up signs during a live performance by the organization Long Live GoGo at a voting rights protest outside the US Chamber of Commerce Headquarters on August 26, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by AFP)

A new survey shows that half Americans do not support the Black Lives Matter, a movement that began over police brutality and racial profiling of people of color, particularly African Americans, in the United States.

Conducted by Civiqs, the poll reportedly showed that 44 percent oppose the movement while 44 percent support it.

Eleven percent, meanwhile, said that they do not either support or oppose the movement and 1 percent expressed uncertainty.

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According to the poll, which has been tracking the movement since April 2017, support for the the Black Lives Matter spiked to a record-high of 52 percent on June 1, 2020.

The strongest support for the movement on came from African Americans with 82 percent backing it.

The BLM movement was founded in the United States in 2013, after a man charged with fatally shooting African-American teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012 was acquitted.

Last year, the movement received major international attention following several cases of extreme police brutality in the US, including the death of George Floyd.

Floyd died in the city of Minneapolis on May 25, 2020, after a white police officer pressed his knee on his neck for nearly 10 minutes as he continually gasped: “I can’t breathe.”

His death also unleashed protests against police brutality in other countries across the world, including the UK, throughout the summer of 2020.

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