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AP-NORC poll: Majority Disapprove of Coronavirus Protests

Associated Press

   WASHINGTON - A majority of Americans disapprove of protests against
   restrictions aimed at preventing the spread the coronavirus, according
   to a new poll that also finds the still-expansive support for such
   limits -- including restaurant closures and stay-at-home orders -- has
   dipped in recent weeks.

   The new survey from the University of Chicago Divinity School and The
   Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds 55% of
   Americans disapprove of the protests that have popped up in some states
   as some Americans begin chafing at public health measures that have
   decimated the global economy. Thirty-one percent approve of the
   demonstrations.

   Texas hair salon owner Shelley Luther was sentenced to seven days in
   jail last week after refusing to apologize to a judge for opening her
   salon in defiance of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's emergency orders.
   She was released less than 48 hours later after Abbott removed jail as
   a punishment for defying virus safeguards.

   In Michigan, thousands of people rallied outside the state capitol last
   month to protest Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's restrictions.
   Hundreds returned two weeks later, some of them armed, to demonstrate
   inside the statehouse.