After one night of being burned by protesters, the Vietnamese restaurant Saigon Bay of Mr. and Mrs. Thanh Son were just rubble.

Saigon Bay is one of about 40 businesses in downtown Fowler Plaza South, Tampa, Florida, burned and looted on the evening of May 30, after a peaceful daytime demonstration involving

Mr. Thanh Son, 50, and his family bought Saigon Bay restaurant 4 years ago after running a restaurant in Kansas City, Missouri for 15 years.

That night, he and the others were at the restaurant when protests erupted.

"I saw the crowds coming. It's scary," said Savy Lam, 44, his wife.

The police were dispatched and dispersed bandits after they broke into a shop.

However, the owner of a nearby jewelry store called Mr. Son, reporting that he saw the restaurant on fire through security cameras.

Return to Saigon Bay at 7am, before his eyes is a mess.

By noon, police and firefighters were still working at the scene.

Over the years, Mr. Son has never seen anything like it.

"We don't know when to rebuild. We don't know at all," he said.

Tampa was just one of the US cities that saw protests lasting a week after George Floyd, 46, was strangled to death by police.

A video shared online shows that Vietnamese nail salon in Minneapolis was broken glass, furniture, tools, robbed money.

"Many stores in downtown Houston were also destroyed, including the Blind Goat restaurant by famous chef Christine Ha, my favorite restaurant," Nhat Minh, from Houston, Texas, told

Mr. Minh said that the number of people walking in Houston is quite large because Floyd is originally here.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has declared a disaster due to violence in cities across the state, and has deployed thousands of soldiers and more than 1,000 National Guard members to assist police in ensuring security.

Phuong Tran, in Las Vegas, Nevada, said the protests took place in the downtown area in the past few days, where there are many fashion shops and restaurants.

However, riots later broke out with more than 100 people arrested, many buildings damaged.

"The disease is still ongoing, adding protests, the more I limit going out, if any, avoid those areas," she said.

Floyd allegedly used a fake $ 20 bill to pay at a grocery store.

Chauvin was fired, arrested and charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter.

According to AP statistics, at least 4,400 people have been arrested in the past few days, from burglaries, blocking highways to breaking curfew.

Just reopened for two weeks after a month of closure due to a blockade to curb Covid-19 spread, Mr. Hoai Nam, owner of a Vietnamese restaurant in New York City, again worried about the protests.

"Covid-19 has caused many business owners to stand down, now more riots do not know they have to live stars," he shared.

The protests in New York lasted 4 days in a row with thousands of people marching on the streets.

Mr. Nam said that he partly understood the reaction of the protesters because they had suffered from injustice in society, were despised and treated like an inferior class.

"There are always good people, bad people. Not all colored people are bad and not all white people are good. Nothing is perfect," he said.

Protests in the US have now spread to both England and New Zealand.

Mr. Nam predicts that the tension will end in two to three days, when four policemen involved in Floyd's death receive appropriate sentences.

"A part of the US police is trustworthy and does not value the lives of others. I think if blacks are treated differently, nothing like this will happen," he added.