An Indian-origin family's car dealership was set on fire by rioters in Kenosha, Wisconsin destroying nearly 100 vehicles and causing damage estimated as $2.5 million, according to family members. “Everybody watched it burn to ashes. Nobody did nothing about it – nothing,” Kenosha News on Saturday quoted family member Anmol Khindri as saying.

The newspaper said that he estimated the losses after the first attack on August 23 at about $1.5 million and after a second attack the following day at $2.5 million.

The riots started during protests against the shooting of an African American man by police while trying to arrest him on August 23 in the city in Wisconsin state.

A member of the family that owned the burnt-down car dealership interviewed by the conservative web site, The Federalist, said about their business being targeted by the protests against the police killing, “We didn't have anything to do with this. I am a minority too. I am a brown person. I have nothing to do with this.”

He told the web site, “This is not the America I came into. I could not even imagine (this happening).”

The riots in Kenosha and across the US that are an offshoot of the Democratic Party-backed Black Lives Matter movement's protests against racism and the police killing of African Americans have become a politically divisive issue ahead of the November election.

The violence has come in handy for Trump to project his strident law-and-order stance while his Democratic Party opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, has been muted in his criticism of the rioting, looting and arson overshadowing the peaceful protests.

The Black Lives Matter protests began in May after the death of an African American man in Minnesota when a policeman knelt on his neck. White people have joined the protests, sometimes outnumbering African Americans.