A recent poll shows only 36% of adults believe George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis police.
The new USA Today-Ipsos Poll stands in contrast to a poll from last summer when 60% of people described Floyd’s death as murder.
Additionally, 17% of those polled this month said they didn’t know how to describe Floyd’s death, and 8% said they believed it was an accident.
Black people were also more likely to view Floyd’s death as a murder, at 64%, than white people, at 28%.
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Trust in the Black Lives Matter movement also dropped from 60% over the summer to 50% this March.
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is currently on trial for Floyd’s death on Memorial Day last year.
A third-degree murder charge was reinstated against Chauvin on Thursday, despite pushback from his defense. The charge comes in addition to second-degree murder and manslaughter charges.
Floyd’s death last summer sparked riots and protests across the nation, leaving billions of dollars of damage. Activists in Minneapolis have already gathered outside the courthouse where Chauvin faces trial and have vowed they’re not leaving anytime soon.
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“And I’m going to tell you all something. I’m looking at my black sisters and brothers, my sons and daughters, mothers and fathers. Don’t be moved. Don’t get divided. We going to stick, we going to say, and we’re going to march on to f—— victory,” Kim Handy-Jones, a black woman who became an activist, told a crowd of roughly 150 outside the Minneapolis courthouse on Monday morning. “We need justice, people. Justice by any means necessary.”
The poll surveyed 1,165 adults online between March 1-2, with a margin of error of 3.3 percentage points.
