I'm not sure what AKSAR means for us to gather from the bolded portion. He can't be suggesting that we don't have to worry about riots because property damage doesn't always occur. Anyway, thanks for the additional information. It's reassuring, but not entirely. It seems to me a good idea to avoid "400 people with shouted racial slurs" (whatever that means). Such a situation could quickly turn ugly, I'd think.

So perhaps it's a good idea to take the possibility of election-related riots more seriously. I didn't think it at all a possibility for my location, but now I see that in some places, riots are more probable than others. Maybe this is something we need to think about.