A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows that Americans favor every major reform in the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act — and that even Republicans support the vast majority of them.
Yet the poll also reveals why last month’s brutal killing of Tyre Nichols by Memphis police officers may not be enough to overcome gridlock in Congress, where the bill remains stalled after passing the House in 2021.
That consensus extends to the bill’s specific reforms. When Yahoo News and YouGov presented respondents with a list of seven potential policy changes, all seven garnered net positive reactions among Americans overall. Large majorities favor requiring body cameras for police , creating a national police misconduct registry , making it easier to prosecute officers accused of wrongdoing and banning chokeholds . In each case, only about 10% to 20% of Americans are opposed.
The fact that Republicans now control the House is one big reason."I don't know that there's any law that can stop that evil that we saw," GOP Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio said afterBut the Yahoo News/YouGov poll suggests that waning public urgency is playing a part as well.killing, a clear majority of Americans expressed a favorable view of the Black Lives Matter movement ; just a third saw BLM in an unfavorable light.
As a result, the reaction to Nichols's killing seems to differ significantly from the reaction to Floyd's. In late May 2020, 85% of Americans said they had heard or read about the latter; fewer say the same today about Nichols. More specifically, just over half of Americans say they have watched the video of Memphis police officers beating Nichols.
By the same token, far fewer Americans say that race was at least a minor factor in Nichols’s killing than said the same about Floyd’s killing . This gap likely reflects the fact that five of the Memphis officers fired for their involvement in Nichols’s killing are black, while Chauvin was white — further complicating efforts to advance systemic reforms.
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