TRUE. WHEN I LIVED IN DC, MY NEIGHBORHOOD WAS STILL SCARRED FROM THE 1968 RIOTS: A Few Days of Riots Can Echo for Many Years. And, of course, it was poor people who suffered.

Researchers in a 2004 National Bureau of Economic Research paper found that “riots depressed the median value of black-owned property between 1960 and 1970, with little or no rebound in the 1970s,” and “that the racial gap in the value of property widened in riot-afflicted cities during the 1970s….Using both city-level and household-level data, we find negative, persistent, and economically significant correlations between riot severity and black-owned property values.”

But the people promoting the riots aren’t the ones who suffer, and have their own agendas.