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**Frownland** · 06-05-2020, 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by jwb

64% of Americans sympathize with the protests in general
https://news.trust.org/item/20200602213748-a24t2/

54% say burning down police station was justified
https://www.newsweek.com/54-american...floyds-1508452

According to the poll, 17 percent said the actions were fully justified and 37 percent said partially justified, for a total of 54 percent.

58% support using the military to assist police
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nichola...ts-poll-finds/

So a majority supports the protests and even some level of selective violence but also wants a military crackdown

They're different polls with limited sample sizes and those percentages seem to lump together those who somewhat and fully support or oppose x. The police station fire one says that "38 percent said that the action was not at all justified" while the martial law article says that "33% of the 1,624 respondents saying they’d “strongly support” it" which is a pretty close overlap.

The bulk of people from all of those polls are in the camp of "somewhat" supporting or opposing x because Americans are a bunch of marble-mouthed centrists.