I guess many initially went on the presumption that the slogan "Black Lives Matter" didn't necessarily mean "cut down on the number of police"? Go figure.

Josh Marshall and Yglesias in December:

CRIMINY, last summer too, GALLUP of 36,000!

81% of Black Americans Don't Want Less Police Presence Despite Protests—Some Want More Cops: Poll

BY JOCELYN GRZESZCZAK @ Newsweek/com, 8/5/20 AT 2:08 PM EDT

A majority of Black Americans have said they want police presence in their area to either remain the same or increase, despite recent protests over police brutality, according to new polls.

A Gallup poll conducted from June 23 to July 6 surveying more than 36,000 U.S. adults found that 61 percent of Black Americans said they'd like police to spend the same amount of time in their community, while 20 percent answered they'd like to see more police, totaling 81 percent. Just 19 percent of those polled said they wanted police to spend less time in their area.

Black Americans' responses to the question were nearly on par with the national average, in which 67 percent of all U.S. adults said they wanted police presence to remain the same and 19 percent said they wanted it to increase [....]

HOW THE HECK did so many of MSM sources and liberal politicians GET SO HOODWINKED by BLM's narrative and agenda? I realize it was a lot of millennial activism of the white elite liberal sort that done it. BUT STILL.

Such a mass delusion for the history books! It's going to be treated as only slightly less mad than the election and reign of Trump, I swear. And paid for it and are paying for it with loss of rule of law, chaos. It's worse than Trump, actually, because he least always had 40% support. This upheaval of reality has been manufactured by like 15%.