Anyone want to take a stab at it?
1. Gathering in a church to worship in accordance with 1st Amendment rights during a pandemic should be:
- Legally prohibited
- Legally permitted but socially discouraged
- Legally permitted and socially encouraged
2. Gathering to protest in accordance with 1st Amendment rights during a pandemic should be:
- Legally prohibited
- Legally permitted but socially discouraged
- Legally permitted and socially encouraged
3. George Floyd died as a result of:
- Racially-motivated police brutality indicative of deep-seated systemic racism
- The same kind of police brutality that affects all races and is unacceptable
- Poor decision-making by the police that was unfortunate and complicated by underlying conditions but did not rise to the level of "brutality"
4. The media coverage of the protests should:
- Stress the need for social distancing similar to how they had done for all reports of large gatherings just the week before
- Downplay the threat of COVID-19
- Completely ignore COVID-19 while covering the protests
5. The instances of media members being arrested / struck by police projectiles represents:
- The unfortunate, but inevitable, outcome of inserting one's self into the midst of chaotic riots wherein targets can easily be misidentified and orders misunderstood
- The actions of a few corrupt/incompetent officers, but not a system-wide conspiracy
- A coordinated attempt to suppress the press and signal to Trump supporters that the media are the enemy of the people
6. When it comes to "protestors" v "rioters":
- I feel like I can easily tell them apart and my views of one group do not affect my views of the other
- I recognize that different groups have different aims right now, but it is often hard to tell them apart
- I see them as one and the same
7. I believe that the most violent and destructive of the rioters are actually:
- Frustrated locals expressing themselves the only way they can under the circumstances
- Opportunistic locals who care little for Mr. Floyd
- Opportunistic outsiders who are selfishly engaging in "chaos tourism"
- Undercover police/white supremacists engaging in "agent provocateur" tactics
- ANTIFA/Red Guard/Anarchist Leftists
- Foreign actors
7. During these heightened times, I am finding the more trustworthy source to be:
- Twitter
- Facebook
- Right-leaning media (Ex. FOX News)
- Left-leaning media (Ex. MSNBC)
- International media (Ex. BBC News)
- Various livestreams
- Blowout Cards
- None of the above
- All of the above, but only by fact-checking each against the other
8. Generally speaking, I consider the widespread destruction of property to be:
- Both fair and good—stores like Target will be just fine and these people deserve to express their frustration through violence at this point
- Not good, but understandable to the point where I would only support the prosecution of the most egregious rioters
- I see both sides and have a completely neutral view
- Not good and I support the prosecution of those who can be identified, but I think we should be focusing more on the protestors' message
- 100% criminal and it only hurts the message of the protestors
- 100% criminal and it has caused me to stop listening to the message of the protestors
9. In response to the rioting and looting, I feel that:
- The government should just let this play out and we'll focus on cleaning up the mess later
- Local police forces should simply monitor the riots and ensure that emergency services like ambulances and fire trucks can operate, but should otherwise not engage
- The national guard should assist the local police in monitoring the riots and ensuring that emergency services like ambulances and fire trucks can operate, but should otherwise not engage
- In light of multiple failings by state and local governments to contain the riots, the national guard should actively engage with the rioters and suppress them
- In light of multiple failings by state and local governments to contain the riots, the national guard should establish martial law and end the riots by whatever means necessary
10. Finally, after all is said and done, I would like to see:
- An even stronger police force with less oversight
- Nothing change
- Problematic departments identified and reformed through increased officer accountability
- Nationwide reform—whether that be increased officer training, greater restrictions placed on the use of force, or requiring former military members to meet the same standards as civilian applicants
- Major nationwide reforms to bring us more in line with Western European and Japanese styles of policing
- The complete overhaul of our nation's police force and possibly even the reduction of its size
- #### the police and abolish the entire institution