Johnson, Devon

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“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."

“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."

“For whites , anti-black racial stereotyping was a significant positive predictor of approval for the use of both reasonable and excessive force against a black offender, but had a negative or non-significant effect when the offender was white."

“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."