“The colder a respondent felt toward ‘Blacks,’ the lower they rated the [BLM] movement… Racial resentment was very strongly and negatively associated with favorable views of BLM—the standardized coefficient … is easily the largest in the model."
“While African American youth are in relative terms exposed more frequently to police contacts, however, white as well as Latino youth may actually be more sensitive to police contacts when they are subjected to them."
“Perceptions of the police as unbiased or as biased against Whites motivates… support for the candidate who has been unconditionally supportive of police and antagonistic towards … the Black Lives Matter movement. Perceptions … may be a proxy for anti-Black sentiment."
“This finding reaffirms theories of colorblind and laissez-faire racism … and shows that a subset of Americans may be cloaking their concerns about the racial order behind a superficially nonracial support of the police."