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A majority of Americans has an unfavorable view of Black Lives Matter, although opinions on the protest movement cut sharply along racial and partisan lines, according to a new poll.

Overall, 43 percent of voters have a positive view of Black Lives Matter, compared with 57 percent who have a negative view of the movement, the latest Harvard-Harris survey found.

Only 35 percent of whites have a favorable view of the movement, while 83 percent of blacks have a favorable view.

Meanwhile, 65 percent of Democrats and 66 percent of those who voted for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary ClintonHillary Rodham ClintonCongress wants Trump Jr. phone records related to Russia meeting Zuckerberg hires top Clinton pollster amid rumors of presidential run: report Democrats new 'Better Deal' comes up short for people of color MORE support the movement, which sprung up during the 2016 election to protest several controversial police shootings of black people and broader frustrations with the criminal justice system and police treatment of minorities.

The public is sympathetic to the problem of police using too much force but overall are unsympathetic to the Black Lives Matter movement, said Harvard-Harris co-director Mark Penn. As you might expect, white voters are sharply negative to the group while African-Americans give them positive ratings.

The Harvard-Harris online survey of 2,051 registered voters was conducted between July 19 and July 24. The partisan breakdown is 37 percent Democrat, 31 percent Republican, 27 percent independent and 4 percent other. Sixty-five percent of respondents were white, 14 percent Hispanic and 12 percent black or African-American.

The poll found that 50 percent of voters overall believe the criminal justice system is unfair to minorities, and 50 percent believe its fair.

Among black voters, 85 percent said there is bias in the criminal justice system, while 60 percent of white voters said the system is fair to minorities.

A majority 56 percent believes the police are too quick to resort to force in encounters with citizens, including 57 percent of whites.

And 54 percent say the police are too quick to shoot African-Americans, although here, only 45 percent of whites agree.

Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) SessionsKelly called Sessions to assure him job is safe: report Overnight Regulation: Senate confirms Trump pick to labor board | Court lets states defend ozone rule | Regulator seeks input on changing 'Volcker Rule' US attorney fired by Trump sends well-wishes to new FBI director MORE, who has broad support from the law enforcement community, nodded to the tensions between the police and minorities in aWednesdayspeech to the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives.

We all know the cases of the last several years when, in confrontations with police, lives have been cut short, Sessions said. Just as Im committed to defending law enforcement who lawfully have to use deadly force to defend themselves while engaged in their work, I will also use the power of the office Im entrusted with to hold any officer responsible who violates the law.

A majority, 54 percent, said the police are held accountable for misconduct. Among blacks, only 23 percent agreed.

Seventy-five percent, including two-thirds of African-Americans surveyed, said more attention is paid to police behavior than to gangs or crime. Nearly 90 percent said that scrutiny has triggered more violence against the police.

And 62 percent said the focus on police behavior has handcuffed law enforcement officials by discouraging them from doing their jobs, although only 44 percent of blacks agreed.

Seventy percent said black people committing crimes against other black people is a bigger problem in African-American communities than police violence toward blacks.

African-Americans are split here, with 49 percent saying black crime is a bigger problem and 51 percent saying police violence toward blacks is the bigger problem.

There are deep racial divides in attitudes towards police and whether too much attention has been given to cop shootings versus black-on-black crime, said Penn.

The Harvard-Harris Poll is a collaboration of the Harvard Center for American Political Studies and The Harris Poll. The Hill will be working with Harvard-Harris Poll throughout 2017.Full poll results will be posted online later this week.

The Harvard-Harris Poll survey is an online sample drawn from the Harris Panel and weighted to reflect known demographics. As a representative online sample, it does not report a probability confidence interval.

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Black Lives Matter activists in Saint Paul, Minnesota, are claiming a man was lynched in Indian Mounds Regional Park on Tuesday, even though the man turned out to be white and his death was ruled a suicide by county officials.

A man identified as 50-year-old Michael R. Bringle was found hanging from a tree early Tuesday about 5:40 a.m., St. Paul police told the Pioneer Press.

Despite contradictory rumors on social media, Mr. Bringle was Caucasian and was not found with his hands tied behind his back, the Ramsey County medical examiners office said. Lori Hedican, the offices chief investigator, said theres no evidence that it was anything other than suicide.

Rumors about the mans death started with a Facebook post by a user of the name Davion Gatlin, who initially claimed the man was black,the Pioneer Press reported.

[W]e ride pass the park around 6am and witness a brother hanging dead from a tree! he wrote, attaching photos of the body that he took from afar. They still killing us and we still killing each other! #MakeGoViral

The verified Facebook account of Black Lives Matter Minneapolis has since picked up on Mr. Gatlins semi-viral post, also sharing the graphic photos and claiming that the man was lynched.

A man was found lynched in St. Paul, MN this morning, the group posted. St. Paul PD was quick to call this a suicide while witnesses on the scene say the mans hands were tied behind his back. We are hurt by the tragic news and know that this despicable & disgusting act of cowardice will not be erased.

The unofficial Black Lives Matter St. Paul, separate from BlackLivesMatter Saint Paul, also responded to the incident, claiming the mans hands were tied behind his back and that the police are lying about the circumstances surrounding his death.

Multiple people have informed the groups that the narrative doesnt fit, but they dont appear to be backing down. The official Black Lives Matter Minneapolis group said Tuesday afternoon that Mr. Bringle doesnt look white and that theyre simply asking for more answers surrounding his death. Mr. Gatlin, who originally published the photos, wrote in a later post that the news is still not [going to] change the fact that blacks are being lynched.

Meanwhile, Mr. Bringles sister called on the community to respect her family and accept that his suicide was most likely due to mental illness.

He was a good, hardworking man, she said during a news conference. He loved his children. He was a great brother.

The St. Paul Police Department responded to the controversy in a Facebook post, saying Mr. Bringles family had to spend part of their day worrying about a photo posted on Facebook of him hanging from a tree and correcting misinformation about his death.

The department confirmed that Mr. Bringle was white and struggled with mental health.

His hands were not tied behind his back, police said. Michaels passing is incredibly hard on those who cared about him, and their pain has been compounded by the inconsiderate and downright disgusting act of posting and sharing a picture of him hanging from a tree on Facebook. If you have posted or shared the photos, please take them down so the family can begin to heal and Michael can rest in peace.

Following the police departments rebuke, both Black Lives Matter groups deleted their original posts and issued updates accepting the polices account of Mr. Bringles suicide. Black Lives Matter Minneapolis apologized and provided readers with a number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.

We would like to apologize to the family of Michael Bringle for sharing those photos & also retract our statements regarding what happened this morning, the group said. As more information came out & Mr. Bringles family came forward it became clear that this was an unfortunate incident caused by mental illness. We are sorry if our post offended anyone & hope that folks see we were simply echoing the questions and concerns that community members had. We will absolutely respect the familys wishes and take down the initial post, our hearts are with them at this time.

Black Lives Matter St. Paul refrained from giving an apology, but posted a smiling photograph of Mr. Bringle standing in a kitchen, which, according to the group, is the picture his family wanted him to be remembered by.

This was Michael Bringle - who we all believed was black and found in the Indian Mounds was actually white, the group said. As we did our own investigation we discovered the truth. Our intentions are not to spread lies, but to figure out what happen given the small information we received.

In the picture, he did appear black, but he wasnt. However, they say his hands werent bound behind his back, but in the picture that was taken it appeared that way, the group said, referencing Mr. Gatlins photos. No matter what - He has our condolences. Its unclear what exactly happened, but may his body rest in peace. #RIP

Mr. Gatlins photos remained active on Facebook as of Wednesday morning. He later said that he did it to expose the truth on these officers and what they do [to] us.

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Michael Bringlecommitted suicide by hanging himselffrom a tree in Indiana Mounds Park in St. Paul, the Ramsey County medical examiners office confirmed. But his body was found around 6:00 a.m. Tuesday by a passerby, Davion Gatlin, who took and posted pictures to Facebook photos the Black Lives Matter activists used to insinuate that police had brutally murdered a black man.

This is just a few blocks from where my auntie live I was just at this damn park two nights ago! This so damn foul!! Im so fed up with this s***! They still killing us and we still killing each other!#MakeGoViral, Gatlincaptioned the photos.

A Black Lives Matter St. Paul Facebook page posted a statement Tuesday that a black man had been lynched, the MinneapolisStar Tribunereports.

St. Paul Police Sgt. Mike Ernster called the post disgusting, and hours later Black Lives Matter Minneapolis had issued an apology to Mr.Bringles family.

As more information came out & Mr.Bringles family came forward it became clear that this was an unfortunate incident caused by mental illness, the group wrote. We are sorry if our post offended anyone & hope that folks see we were simply echoing the questions and concerns that community members had.

Mr.Bringles sister said it was devastating to learn the news of her brothers death from Facebook.

To me, hearing about it on Facebook was so devastating, Bringles sister, Kelly Brown-Rozowski, told theMinneapolis Star Tribune. This isnt something to be shared in such a tragic way; he should be remembered for what a great man he was.

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Black Lives Matter of Minneapolis is apologizing for spreading photos of a man who committed suicide by hanging himself in a public park in St. Paul, Minnesota. BLM Minneapolis and BLM St. Paul had separately repeated unsubstantiated claims the man was the victim of a lynching. From BLM Minneapolis Facebook account:

We would like to apologize to the family of Micheal Bringle for sharing those photos & also retract our statements regarding what happened this morning. As more information came out & Mr.Bringles family came forward it became clear that this was an unfortunate incident caused by mental illness. We are sorry if our post offended anyone & hope that folks see we were simply echoing the questions and concerns that community members had.

Yesterday, City Pages reported how the claim that Bringle was the victim of a lynching got started:

Soon after Bringle was found, aFacebook postbegan circulating with three disturbing pictures of the scene including Bringle and nearby police officers. They still killing us and we still killing each other! wrote the poster, Davion Gatlin, adding the hashtag #MakeGoViral.

And it did go viral, with over 6,000 shares. People began claiming the victims hands were tied behind his back, further suggesting he had been lynched. When the coroner stated the death was a suicide and that the manshands had not been tied, Black Lives Matter of St. Paul disputed it and continued pushing the claim the man had been lynched:

Black Lives Matter St. Paul disagrees strongly with that assessment, claiming on its own Facebook page that the man found in Indian Mounds Park had been lynched, and reiterated the claim his hands were tied behind his back.

Police released a statement on Facebook after speaking to Bringles sister,Kelly Brown-Rozowski.

The woman in this photo is Kelly Brown-Rozowski.

Her brother is the man who tragically took his own life in Indian Mounds Park this morning.

His name was Micheal Bringle, and instead of mourning, his family members had to spend part of their day worrying about a photo posted on Facebook of him hanging from a tree and correcting misinformation about his death.

The statement goes on to say that Bringle struggled with mental health. Finally, heres the photo police released of Kelly Brown-Rozowski:

So Bringles hands were not tied behind his back, he had mental health issues that led to his suicide and, oh yeah, he was white. Other than that, BLM did a great job with this story.

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