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Yikes! New Poll Finds Only 36% of US Adults Believe George Floyd Was Murdered by Minneapolis Police Officer
Gateway Pundit ^ | 3/10/21

Posted on 03/10/2021 8:07:58 AM PST by Altura Ct.

What a difference a year makes — and two billion dollars in destroyed property by leftist rioters!

Jury selection began this week in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin over the May 2020 killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

A new USA Today/Ipsos Poll found that today only 36% believe George Floyd’s death was murder — that number is down from 60% last year.

As Jack Posobiec reported the coroner’s report found George Floyd suffered no life threatening injuries. He was high on drugs at the time.

The Gateway Pundit has reported extensively on George Floyd’s death. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/03/trial-next-week-will-jury-find-george-floyd-died-drug-overdose-not-approved-minneapolis-police-procedure/

USA Today reported:

Americans’ trust in the Black Lives Matter movement has fallen and their faith in local law enforcement has risen since protests demanding social justice swept the nation last year, according to an exclusive USA TODAY/Ipsos Poll.

The debate over the intersection of racism and policing will be in the spotlight again as jury selection opens Monday in the Minneapolis trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd, which sparked nationwide marches last year.

The survey finds complicated and shifting views about Chauvin’s actions and broader questions of race. On many issues, there is a chasm in the perspective between Black people and white people.

Last June, 60% in a USA TODAY/Ipsos Poll described Floyd’s death as murder; that percentage has now dropped by double digits to 36%. Uncertainty has grown about how to characterize the incident, caught on video, when Chauvin held his knee on Floyd’s neck and ignored his protests that he couldn’t breathe. Last year, 4% said they didn’t know how to describe it; that number has climbed to 17%.


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To: sasquatch
How can someone speak but not breathe??

Great question for a Zen master.

Next is "what is the sound of one hand clapping?"

Leftists push that all blacks are the targets of secret plans by police to murder them if they can get away with it. Preposterous but pushed by the academics and media.

21 posted on 03/10/2021 8:32:11 AM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud, harvesting,non-citizen votingop & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: Altura Ct.
Yikes! New Poll Finds Only 36% of US Adults Believe George Floyd Was Murdered by Minneapolis Police Officer>

The only opinions that matter are the nine adults in the jury box.

22 posted on 03/10/2021 8:34:45 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Altura Ct.

He was not murdered. Negligence for someone’s life, but not murder.

Doesn’t matter. The trial was scheduled so it would end during warm weather so the riots would be stronger and last longer.

If it’s “guilty,” there will be riots, stores will be looted and destroyed, innocent Whites will be attacked and Minneapolis will descend into pre-civilization barbarism. Whites will be branded all “racist” and there will be calls for reparations.

If it’s “not guilty,” there will be riots, stores will be looted and destroyed, innocent Whites will be attacked and Minneapolis will descend into pre-civilization barbarism. Whites will be branded all “racist” and there will be calls for reparations.


23 posted on 03/10/2021 8:43:57 AM PST by I want the USA back (The nation is in the grips of incurable hysterical insanity, as usual.)
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To: Altura Ct.

The racism market is in sell mode about time.


24 posted on 03/10/2021 8:45:45 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Altura Ct.

Despite the corrupt media’s efforts to hide it, the word has gotten out that Floyd had a lethal dose of fentanyl in his system.


25 posted on 03/10/2021 8:57:34 AM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Altura Ct.

Watch for a Biden gun confiscation bill to be passed by congress before a George Floyd jury is empaneled. Large mobs are expected in the street and they will riot regardless of the outcome, but especially if the office is acquitted.


26 posted on 03/10/2021 8:57:39 AM PST by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: Phillyred; I want the USA back
Saint George

Didn't slay a dragon but probably chased it a time or two.

St

We're just waiting for the pseudo-pontiff to beatify the addict before his death's political capital expires.

27 posted on 03/10/2021 9:04:58 AM PST by MikelTackNailer (Those who see all through racism-colored glasses need but look in a mirror.)
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To: eyeamok

Yes, there will be more riots, if he’s found not guilty.


28 posted on 03/10/2021 9:05:16 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: MikelTackNailer
The blacks always pick the wrong person to be their hero.....every time......Perhaps they could get a clue maybe it's better to think, wait and realize their bad guys are bad guys.
29 posted on 03/10/2021 9:12:15 AM PST by caww ("Politics is not a game, but a serious business" - Churchill)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Well they’re real good at burning down and destroying their own communities........


30 posted on 03/10/2021 9:13:36 AM PST by caww ("Politics is not a game, but a serious business" - Churchill)
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To: eyeamok; Altura Ct.
"When the Police Officer is found Not Guilty for Murdering this guy that died from a Fentany Overdose while resisting arrest, are they going to Riot ala Rodney King??"

What the racist / communist / marxist / blm / aunty fa / hate America crowd will inevitably do will make last year's riots across the country look like the Rodney King riot.

31 posted on 03/10/2021 9:15:05 AM PST by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: Altura Ct.

74% are RACIST!
LOL.


32 posted on 03/10/2021 9:15:35 AM PST by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: Altura Ct.

Lemme guess who the remaining 36% are... liberal black folks, liberals In general, and young college age know-it-alls that hate authority and hate cops.


33 posted on 03/10/2021 9:18:05 AM PST by Bob434
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To: sasquatch

They can’t! You can test this yourself by briefly cutting off your air and trying to speak. You can somewhat talk, but you absolutely can’t speak distinctly and clearly. Ike George did the whole time he was being restrained. Your chest will also not be going up and down like George’s was as he was breathing the whole time, nor will you be heard on audio breathing fine like George was as heard on audio.

There are several videos and audio from all angles, and you can clearly see and hear George breathing just fine, even after he passes out from the drugs as the drugs are in the process of killing him


34 posted on 03/10/2021 9:22:36 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Altura Ct.

You’re not going to get twelve to convict. Too many other factors reducing certainty.

The mob on the street will not be able to understand this.


35 posted on 03/10/2021 9:23:43 AM PST by lurk ( )
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To: Phillyred

It really wasn’t because of him. Race relations are set back because of the agenda of the home crowd and their supporters who all blew this routine drug overdose story into a narrative that cops are murderous racists in a system where systemic racism runs rampant... DESPITE the fact that only two unarmed black folks were shot a d killed all last year by cops unjustifiable, and the cops in those 2 incidents were indicted and convicted. 54 cops meanwhile ,out their lives last year defending all communities and all races, but. Y golly, it’s the cops that are racist according to the racist blm movement


36 posted on 03/10/2021 9:26:28 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Little Ray

Prediction: Guilty because the jury is afraid of getting fixed if they don’t and because they don’t want to be deemed racists and responsible for the rioting and burning that will follow anything other than a murder conviction.

We all know this, right?


37 posted on 03/10/2021 9:32:34 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: usconservative

Damn autocorrect. That’s DOXXED not fixed.


38 posted on 03/10/2021 9:33:20 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: I want the USA back
"The trial was scheduled so it would end during warm weather so the riots would be stronger and last longer.

If it’s “guilty,” there will be riots, stores will be looted and destroyed, innocent Whites will be attacked and Minneapolis will descend into pre-civilization barbarism. Whites will be branded all “racist” and there will be calls for reparations.

If it’s “not guilty,” there will be riots, stores will be looted and destroyed, innocent Whites will be attacked and Minneapolis will descend into pre-civilization barbarism. Whites will be branded all “racist” and there will be calls for reparations."

All that poison is already flowing in this country's bloodstream.

And because that's where we find ourselves already....

When the widespread riots happen, and they will, Xiden and the anchor baby non-natural Born Citizen "woman of color" will either tread lightly with the rioters, which will of course lead to more police departments themselves having to tread lightly which will lead to more police leaving their jobs and yet more riots.

Or, if Xiden and the anchor baby non-natural Born Citizen "woman of color" choose to try to put on a strong show against the inevitable anarchy....that will naturally lead the barbarians at the gate to riot even further.

The poison has been allowed to spread.

Sure looks like a tipping point of some magnitude is setting up to play out this year when the jury is in and the weather warms...

39 posted on 03/10/2021 9:35:57 AM PST by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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And 13% believed OJ was innocent


40 posted on 03/10/2021 9:40:37 AM PST by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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