Is the civil unrest occurring in the city/town you live?

I live in a suburb north of Minneapolis. There is nothing going on in my suburb but there is activity not far away. My daughter lives in St Paul and there have been fires less than a mile from her house.

There was a protest attended by several hundred people in my little town of 50K on Sunday afternoon. It was peaceful, but then someone altered the protest poster online to say that looting was to begin at Target at 8pm - the account was linked to a white guy in another city who says he is currently in Afghanistan and his account was "hacked". Target, being proactive, closed at 6pm that evening and boarded up their windows (and the people around here lost their ever-loving minds).

In a neighboring city, the police tear gassed protesters when they didn't disperse after they were told the protest was over on Monday (from the accounts and videos I have seen and read, there was no violence or aggression on the part of the protesters, they simply didn't leave when told to do so).

The town I live in, the town I work in, and the town closest to me (so, 3 different towns) have all had peaceful protests. The two major cities closest to me ( Phoenix and Tucson) have both had riots/looting.

Major protests and vandalism/looting in Columbus. Lots of cops, National Guard, etc.

I've had Facebook friends at the protests every day so I've watched a lot of it on live feeds and on the news stations feeds.

we not only had the major civic center protests.. but we has a neighborhood, family friendly protest.. they walked down a closed highway.. lots of families, older people. we have had looting downtown..but we always have protests here..mostly the locals know how to do it.. it is outsiders who are looting...

I live in a small city on the way to Yosemite. There is a march planned for today. The fear is outsiders will come and turn the march into something it is not meant to be. Some buildings boarded up windows on the planned route at center of town. Who knows what will happen. We have at the very most maybe about 10 black families living here. Unfortunately there is a large population of rednecks also living here.

I had a dentist appointment this afternoon at 2, they called yesterday saying they were closing the office today be cause of the protest. I kind of laughed the office is no where near the center of town and not on a main road. That’s life in a small city! We will see how it turns out. On top of everything thing else it’s supposed to be 105 here today. That might deter a lot of people.

I live in small-town USA (less than 5000 people) nothing ever goes on here.

The two cities I live closest to have had protests, but no riots or looting. The police in one of the towns were out protecting the protesters.

My town has had two very peaceful demonstrations. No looting or violence. The large town near us has had peaceful demonstrations and one or two incidents of looting late at night (not done by any of the protestors).

Better be careful speaking out about the devastation and how dire the consequences are for people who were barely surviving COVID.

I've been told multiple times that makes me part of the problem.

I only wish I was kidding. I'm not. People who are at the same time telling me the biggest problem our country has is racism aren't as concerned about how these riots will disproportionately affect people of color, and they have told me this on threads I have made with videos of black women decrying the devastation of their neighborhoods.

At least one of these same people has blacked out their avatar to show that they are "listening." 

Oh, I believe you. I haven't been told that as I don't post anything even remotely controversial anywhere but here, but I have definitely seen other people raked over the coals on FB.

It's all just a mess, and I hope we can get through it and recover.

It was 6pm about two and a half hours before the sun goes down here. A man and his son were pepper sprayed WHILE they were walking to their car to leave.

Yes and other.

In my actual city there was a "march" of mostly white people showing their support. I think I saw 5 black people in the pictures.

In the city where DH works, several protests, buildings vandalized, windows broken, tear gas, a curfew, etc.

Yep, we have it all. Peaceful, constructive protests and demonstration, rioting and looting, destruction of local businesses and property, burning in the street, tear gas and rubber bullets, curfews...you name it, we got it. Go Orygun.