One of my biggest fears if I lived in a city like that would be doing what the old guy did - accidentally turning onto a street with a raging mob. It's easy to say "avoid it", but the way these things pop up, there's no way to know, unless you're a GenZer who's on the social media 23 hours a day. And those people are likely to be part of the mob.
That's exactly what happened to us. Wife and I were heading to get groceries, and all of a sudden there's opposing parking lots full of mobs. Relatively luckily the streets were still open (Tampa PD closed them later) and we noped the *expletive deleted*ck out. I have good situational awareness, but I don't track every little marxist social media page in Tampa to see if they are planning *expletive deleted*it before going to Publix.
Mrs. Wife got caught in a BLM protest much the same way back in 2020. She went to get Chinese takeout, and when she came out the streets had been blocked off (again, TPD) because of the riot firing up a couple blocks down. SHe hadn't even passed it yet, or seen anything, but she was inside of the perimiter being set up. She talked a cop into letting her through the barricade to go home before the actual riot got going, but still.
That's part of the reason I'm building up a bag to keep in the car if I gotta abandon the vehicle and beat feet.
