It would definitely appear that the situation in the US has eased up slightly. For starters there's been very little coverage of any events that happened overnight here in the UK and for the past week it's all the news has been showing.

As for the London protest yesterday, it was inspisred by George Floyd and the protests in America. We have had some covid lockdown protests previously but these were tackled and disrupted immediately by the police. Yesterday though they not only allowed it to take place but stood back and let the BLM march erupt into violence as it came to an end.