Well first up, avoid areas where riots are happening or likely to happen!

But if that’s not possible, “Ian” at The Bugscuffle Gazette Substack has specific advice in his article Needs must drive (When the Devil dances), of which just three samples because they made me laugh:

By all means have supplies in your vehicle, but don’t look like you’re making supply runs for the Free-Range Socialists. Two or three sport bottles of water scattered around the inside of your car is one thing, two cases of bottled water on the back seat gets you unwanted attention. Both from Officialdom, and from the local anarchist collective looking to steal communally seize redistribute supplies for the Glorious People’s Democratic Worker’s Revolution, or what the hell ever.

The interesting aspect of his advice is that he treats both the rioters and the Agents Of The State with the same degree of caution and expectation.

Yes, you should put on nitrile gloves before checking yourself or a buddy for injuries. Yes, wound contamination is not high on our list of priorities at the time. However, your hands may be covered in greasy grimy gopher guts9. You don’t want to waste time staring at the red smear on your hand and trying to decide if it came from busting Zephyr the Scum-Sucking Siberian Snow Pimp in the snot-locker, or from a stab-wound in your back. Put on the clean, blank gloves.

No black nitrile gloves and no long gun. Got it. There’s also the philosophical angle:

Don’t lollygag, don’t document, don’t offer to help — the whole situation is not your issue, and you don’t need to volunteer to be a piñata — you aren’t going to change a single, damned thing; you aren’t going to heroically change the course of human history, and the best you can hope for is to not wind up as a footnote in the history books.

As always, read the whole thing.