Americans don’t have much good to say about the protests this week in Ferguson, Missouri on the one-year anniversary of the Michael Brown incident.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 53% of American Adults view the latest Ferguson protests as mostly criminals taking advantage of the situation. Thirty-one percent (31%) consider them primarily legitimate outrage over conditions there, while 17% are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

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The national telephone survey of 1,000 Adults was conducted by Rasmussen Reports on August 11-12, 2015. The margin of sampling error for the survey is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Fieldwork for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.