burned down multiple cities

No, they didn't. There was looting. There was arson. There was protests that got out of hand and violence, yes. But two, three blocks of violence in a city is not "the city burning down". I had friends in Seattle who said you could live on Cap Hill and not even be aware of the CHAZ thing. I lived in LA and on the very worst day of looting you could be two blocks away and not even know what's going on.

I think people who live in small towns see two, three blocks of violence and 300 people rioting and think it's huge because to them it is, in a 800 square mile city with millions of people it's barely noticeable.