Let me make this clear, looting/rioting is NOT protesting. If you disagree with the government and want your views to be known, by all means, protest your heart out.... carry signs, march, chant some cute little rhymes. IDGAF, thats free speech, and thats what I and other veterans served and fought for your right to do so.
But when you vandalize, burn and steal from local businesses, inflict bodily harm on others, you are a thug.
Covid has hurt the small business owners as it is, not to mention the people they employ, and when I see them being vandalized, looted and burned....