many media outlets took down postings of the video later in the evening on August 26, 2020. Property damage Seventy-seven properties were damaged during the unrest. A report by the Star Tribune tracked damage to 72 properties in Minneapolis, including five with fire damage, and damage to four properties in Saint Paul. Most damage occurred on Nicollet Mall between 5th and 2th streets. A liquor store in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Park was also looted during the period of unrest. The five Minneapolis businesses set on fire on August 26, 2020, included the Target Corporation building, Brits Pub on the Nicollet Mall in downtown, and three businesses in south Minneapolisa Tires Plus store, a Walgreens drug store, and the China Wok restaurant. It was unclear to investigators if the fire at China Wok was directly related to the unrest or not. The south Minneapolis area had also been at the epicenter of heavy rioting after Floyd's murder in late May 2020, including where a police station was torched. Officials believed that their experience with the unrest in the days after the murder of George Floyd in May 2020 led to a speedier response during the August 2020 events that distinguished people protesting peacefully and those causing destruction. Following Floyd's murder, more than 1,500 property locations in MinneapolisSaint Paul were damaged or destroyed by rioting. At the time of the August 2020 unrest, downtown Minneapolis businesses were said to be struggling from closures related to the COVID-19 pandemic and unrest. For the dozens of business that were broken into and looted, the August riot was considered another challenging economic setback. The National Review speculated that the unrest and rioting in Minneapolis in 2020 could mark a decades-long period of stagnation and decline, similar to what cities such as Los Angeles, Detroit, and Newark experienced after historic unrest. Dozens of businesses closed temporarily during the unrest. Kam Talebi, owner of the downtown Brit's Pub, remarked on August 27, 2020, about broader conversations to address the unrest in Minneapolis, "I hope within that there's a priority of safety for residents and the businesses. It's just tough to be able to operate right now in downtown Minneapolis." Brit's Pub was looted and much of the interior destroyed by fire. It reopened seven months later, in March 2021, after extensive clean up and refurbishing. In 2022, Wild Greg's Saloon restaurant in downtown closed and