Survey: 3 out of 4 white Christians don't believe police brutality is an issue

For white Christians, the police killings of black Americans as well as the prevalent issues of police brutality are just isolated incidents.

That’s what a recent Public Religion Research Institute survey has found: white Christians are far less likely than other groups to believe the experiences of black Americans.

While 80% of black Christians believe that police killings are part of a larger pattern, about 70% of white Christians believe the opposite, with those numbers including 72 percent of white evangelical Protestants, 71 percent of white Catholics, and 73 percent of white mainline Protestants.

Conversely, only 65% of white generally believe that police killings are isolated incidents, meaning non-Christian whites are more likely to believe the experiences of black Americans than Christian whites.