The share of Americans who think police are adequately trained to avoid using excessive force is down from 47% in July 2020, and 52% in December 2014.
Following the police beating and subsequent death last month of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, Americans’ confidence in police training has hit a new low, a new poll shows.
The poll included 1,003 U.S. adults and was conducted between Jan. 27 and Feb. 1, a few weeks after Nichols died, with a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points. The poll results come after video footage showed Nichols being brutally beaten by several police officers during a traffic stop on Jan. 7. Nichols died from his injuries three days later.
“It’s like a never-ending nightmare,” Nichols’ older brother, Jamal Dupree, told CNN this week of his brother’s death.“As soon as I saw the photos from him in the hospital, I already knew that they treated my brother like an animal,” Dupree said. “They beat on him like he was nothing. I don’t have to watch the video to know that.”
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