The looting and damage here has been very localized, not wide spread and from I can tell not that much damage was done relative to "real riots".
The police have also arrested quite a few individuals who likely are prone to criminal acts so they are off the streets for a spell anyway. From the photos, quite a few of the protesters are white. The police department here is mostly black, which leads to some interesting scenes, white people taunting black police officers for being racist.
These things in the past have lasted a few days and petered out but back then folks had jobs to get back to in many cases, that has changed today.
The wife is intensely interested in the Space X thing, so she's watching that almost all the time. I get the highlights.
