FWIW, my wife querier her cousins and a friend this morning. Both said where they are is unaffected, and much of the city is fine, parts have seen looting and rioting, but not near them.
We were in Paris a couple years back when there was a large "manifestion" (protest). It didn't get violent apparently, our problem were all the bridges were blocked. We couldn't get to our hotel.
This was true in Atlanta a few years back when there were protests/riots/looting, the areas affected were pretty localized, nothing near us (other than a couple protests which were annoying but nonviolent). The TV scenes looked pretty bad, but it really wasn't.