I think this article, like much analysis I've seen, is unreasonably optimistic about the long-term prognosis of riots.

> Target will reopen. The stores will reopen. That’s assured.

It's not assured! In the riots of the 60s, many neighborhoods didn't see the stores reopen and took decades to recover. Multiple days of rioting is an existential threat to a neighborhood. Maybe that's a price worth paying, but you've got to own it, not pretend sustained looting is a temporary inconvenience.