Some protesters are wearing masks, but it's by no means the majority.
Neither is cutting off a pigs head, putting it on an American flag, putting a cops hat on it, and lighting it on fire.
https://mobile.twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1289093614165831...
The article says "significantly reduced tensions", not absence.
Either way, BLM is already marked for life as a violent marxist organization, discredited by many black leaders, and rightly so.
Some protesters are wearing masks, but it's by no means the majority.