{"id":604175,"date":"2021-07-27T17:20:53","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T21:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=604175"},"modified":"2021-07-27T17:20:56","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T21:20:56","slug":"poll-more-americans-want-black-lives-matter-riots-investigated-than-january-6-riot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-more-americans-want-black-lives-matter-riots-investigated-than-january-6-riot\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: More Americans Want \u2018Black Lives Matter Riots\u2019 Investigated Than January 6 Riot"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpoll-more-americans-want-black-lives-matter-riots-investigated-than-january-6-riot%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=604175&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1216816811.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>As Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi picks members of a select committee to investigate the riots of January 6, a new poll finds that many Americans believe she\u2019s focusing on the wrong riots.<\/p>\n<p>One-third more Americans believe Congress should hold investigative hearings about last summer\u2019s \u201cBlack Lives Matter protests that sparked violence\u201d than think lawmakers ought to probe the riot at the capitol on January 6.<\/p>\n<p>In all, two out of three likely U.S. voters say they believe Congress should open an official investigation into \u201cthe violent protests,\u201d which blazed a trail of arson and looting through major and mid-sized cities nationwide. On the other hand, fewer than half (49%) of Americans support Pelosi\u2019s investigation of the D.C. riot, in which rioters protesting the 2020 presidential election results stormed the capitol.<\/p>\n<p>Support for a federal inquiry into the riots that engulfed U.S. cities after the death of George Floyd cut deep across racial and political lines. \u201cSixty-seven percent (67%) of whites, 64% of black voters, 66% of Hispanics and 62% of other minorities think Congress should investigate the 2020 riots in U.S. cities,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/partner_surveys\/two_thirds_of_voters_want_congress_to_investigate_2020_riots\">reported<\/a> Rasmussen Reports. \u201cSeventy-five percent (75%) of Republicans, 60% of Democrats and 63% of voters not affiliated with either major party say Congress should investigate last year\u2019s violent protests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Speaker\u2019s controversial select committee stands on shakier ground. Americans were almost evenly divided on whether members of Congress should launch another examination of the Capitol riot, which Pelosi and her fellow Democrats label an \u201cinsurrection\u201d: 42% of respondents told pollsters that the event does not merit a national inquest, with 49% in favor. By contrast, only 21% of Americans said Congress should not investigate the riots surrounding the Black Lives Matter movement.<\/p>\n<p>The riots were the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2020\/sep\/16\/insurance-costs-of-2020-riots-most-costly-in-histo\/\">most expensive<\/a>&nbsp;in U.S. history,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/riots-looting-that-followed-george-floyds-death-could-cost-2-billion-most-expensive-incident-in-insurance-history\">costing<\/a>&nbsp;insurance companies an estimated $1 billion to $2 billion,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/economy\/damage-riots-1b-most-expensive\">according<\/a>&nbsp;to Property Claim Services.&nbsp;That estimate only includes the share of the damage insurance companies cover.<\/p>\n<p>The riots also left hundreds of policemen and civilians injured, and dozens killed, in their wake. \u201cApproximately, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/new-york-times-blames-gop-elites-for-blms-decline-in-popularity-nationwide\">72%<\/a> of major city law enforcement agencies had officers harmed\u201d during last summer\u2019s riots, <a href=\"https:\/\/majorcitieschiefs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/MCCA-Report-on-the-2020-Protest-and-Civil-Unrest.pdf\">according<\/a> to the Major Cities Chiefs Association.&nbsp;A single police agency \u201creported that 462 of [its] officers were injured during the protests in [its] jurisdiction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tragically, at least <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2020\/08\/26\/almost-none-deaths-linked-recent-protests-are-known-have-been-committed-by-protesters\/\">27<\/a> people died during the riots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany elected officials of both parties and at all levels followed up, not by apologizing to their citizens for failing to uphold the law, but by accusing police officers of systemic racism, being in need of reform, reimagining and defunding,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpolice.org\/most-voters-want-congress-to-investigate-the-574-violent-riots-in-2020-that-resulted-in-over-2000-injured-police-officers-as-well-as-the-january-6th-riot-at-the-us-capitol\/\">said<\/a> Sgt. Betsy Brantner Smith (Ret), a spokesperson for the National Police Association, in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The poll also found:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>62% of voters believe politicians who downplayed the riots should be criticized, 11 points higher than those who believe politicians should be called out for minimizing the importance of the D.C. riot;<\/li>\n<li>63% believe looters and rioters who broke the law last summer should be charged and criminally prosecuted;<\/li>\n<li>65% say President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris should meet with the family of former St. Louis Police captain David Dorn, who was slain by rioters;<\/li>\n<li>68% believe failing to prosecute \u201cquality of life\u201d crimes like shoplifting make criminals more likely to reoffend; and<\/li>\n<li>76% of likely voters say young people ought to be taught to obey police officers\u2019 lawful commands instead of resisting or fleeing arrest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The results, which come from a poll released by Rasmussen and the National Police Association last Wednesday, follow a poll in April that found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/current_events\/police_brutality\/55_of_voters_say_anti_cop_rhetoric_from_politicians_endangers_police\">55%<\/a> of likely voters believe anti-police rhetoric makes police officers\u2019 jobs more dangerous.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi picks members of a select committee to investigate the riots of January 6, a new poll finds that many Americans believe she\u2019s focusing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}