Most Americans want sweeping police reforms in US: Poll
Most Americans support extensive police reforms in the US, including banning chokeholds and racial profiling, following the death of George Floyd by a white police officer, according to a new poll.
The Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll taken on June 9-10 and released on Thursday, comes as protesters gathered across the US to condemn racism and police brutality following the death of George Floyd.
The poll shows 82 percent of Americans want to ban police from using chokeholds, 83 percent want to ban racial profiling, and 92 percent want police to be required to wear body cameras.
The national survey shows the public broadly on the side of Democratic lawmakers, who proposed a series of changes to police departments in the United States. Republican lawmakers are preparing their own plans for changes in policing, though they are expected to fall short of the deep reforms being sought by Democrats in Congress.
It also found that 89 percent of Americans say police must be required to give the people they stop their name, badge number and reason for the stop, and 75 percent want to support “allowing victims of police misconduct to sue police departments for damages.”
And 91 percent of Americans support independent investigations of police departments that have a pattern of excessive force.
Protests have been held across the US for nearly three weeks in response to the killing of George Floyd, a black man who died after a white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes in Minneapolis on May 25.
A video of the incident shows Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, kneeling on Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes as the 46-year-old was in handcuffs. "Please, please, I cannot breathe," Floyd can be heard in the video as Chauvin continues to kneel on his neck.
His death has reignited long-felt anger over police killings of African-Americans and unleashed a nationwide wave of civil unrest unlike any seen in the United States since Martin Luther King Jr's 1968 assassination.
It has also posed Donald Trump with one of the greatest challenges of his tumultuous presidency. Trump called on states to crack down on the protests and warned he could use military forces if states did not quell protests.
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