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A few thoughts on that:

It depends on the business & on the person doing it. Some local businesses, which might be struggling, are owned by city council members who've supported policies that have hurt people, like anti-homeless ordinances (or whatnot), so in that case, for some who vandalize their businesses, it makes a certain kind of sense to.

Other people who smash local businesses might have their own personal reasons to do so, like maybe they were racially profiled while they were browsing that stores merchandise.

Other people could make the case that local capitalism is still capitalism, that those businesses employ people in order to generate more wealth for themselves & that life wasn't much better before the larger monopolies took over & ran out "mom & pop" stores.

Some others might argue that all commodities come from ecosystems that were destroyed to produce them to begin with & that it's fair game to destroy basically everything around us in retaliation.

Some might see this situation as an exception to the general rule of "only smash corporations & government infrastructure" because during the actual street fighting, things happen & in the moment it doesn't serve your best interests to start policing other peoples behavior when the cops are chasing you & shooting things at you.

But certainly it's not cool to try & get someone arrested for smashing or looting any business. Jail time can wreck peoples lives & hurt their loved ones as well. It's definitely messed up to protect businesses with firearms. Some windows & whatever else in the store isn't worth taking a humans life. If you're concerned about a specific place of work, like a radical bookstore, co-op cafe, or whatever, & you see people start to target it, just try to let people know that they're actually not as bad as some other places are. Usually people get it & will move on to the next place. Most of the time, what it seems you're concerned about, happens in a heat of the moment situation & if you don't be a jerk to the person attempting to do what you think is questionable action, they'll understand.