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The public's perception of the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, including the gap between evidence and perception
The (BLM) movement has been overwhelmingly peaceful in its demonstrations: monitoring groups recorded that roughly 95% of protests during the involved peaceful participants and fewer than 5% involved ...
Public support for surged in 2020, with roughly two-thirds of Americans expressing support at the protests’ peak, but that broad backing has since declined and polarized along racial, partisan and soc...
The evidence shows that episodes of violence in and around protests were a small minority of events and that much of the documented physical harm was inflicted by police and rather than by demonstrato...
Federal and local reporting shows a mix of grassroots volunteer legal observers, labor and faith-based organizers, and allegations that outside donors — most notably links to and organizations he fund...
Claims that large numbers of were "paid" have circulated since 2020, but systematic fact-checking and academic reporting show little credible evidence that mass payments drove participation in the mov...