British mounted police officers secure the area of the United States Embassy in East London, on Saturday, July 10, 2020 - as people organised by Black Lives Matter are expected to march towards the Embassy by 2/pm. Anti-racism demonstrators are holding the seventh weekend of protests across the U.K., despite a ban on large gatherings because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Anger against systemic levels of institutional racism have raged through the city, and worldwide; sparked by the death of George Floyd who died on May 25 after he was restrained by Minneapolis police in the United States.