Yesterday evening, Hampshire Police finally released the bodycam footage from the arrest of Henry Nowak - the 18-year-old student who was murdered by a Sikh man named Vickrum Digwa last December.
Now the British public can finally see what happened on that night, when police were called to the scene and did not arrest Digwa, but instead Nowak, who was bleeding to death. Rather than coming to Nowak’s aid, the police handcuffed him, after Digwa and his brother claimed to have been racially abused by Nowak. When Nowak tells the police he has been stabbed, one of the officers replies: “I don’t think you have, mate.”
In a video statement this morning, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage summed up the horrific series of events:
“The last thing [Henry Nowak] heard on this Earth was him being read his rights by the police. He was actually treated in a way that meant an accusation of a racial slur was treated more seriously than an act of murder. What does he say? ‘I can't breathe.’ Familiar words? Remember career criminal George Floyd, who died in appalling circumstances in Midwest America a few years ago? Remember the reaction to that and the way the police behaved?”
“Within a few days, Keir Starmer was taking the knee. Black Lives Matter exploded all over the country. Churchill's statue was defaced. The Cenotaph was vandalised. And yet, what has the public reaction been from our leaders and politicians? Indeed, to be frank, much of the media did this. Silence. Absolute silence. Proof, if ever there was any, that we're living in a two-tier culture in this country, where the rights and privileges of white people matter less than those of ethnic minorities.”
“The most important thing that has to change if our society is not to be ripped apart, where communities start to distrust each other and deeply distrust the police and all the other institutions of this country, is we need a change in culture. Enough of anti-white prejudice. A promotion of the idea that white lives matter just as much as black lives. An end to DEI and positive discrimination, but a country that treats everybody equally and fairly before the law. This is serious. This is urgent. I fear for where our society would be in a few short years if we don't grip this and do it very, very quickly."
“I want to send my sincerest condolences to Henry's family. I hope this is the last time a British police force operates in this way. But the fish rots from the head down. It is up to government and police chiefs to change this culture and to start that process today.”
Now the British public can finally see what happened on that night, when police were called to the scene and did not arrest Digwa, but instead Nowak, who was bleeding to death. Rather than coming to Nowak’s aid, the police handcuffed him, after Digwa and his brother claimed to have been racially abused by Nowak. When Nowak tells the police he has been stabbed, one of the officers replies: “I don’t think you have, mate.”
In a video statement this morning, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage summed up the horrific series of events:
“The last thing [Henry Nowak] heard on this Earth was him being read his rights by the police. He was actually treated in a way that meant an accusation of a racial slur was treated more seriously than an act of murder. What does he say? ‘I can't breathe.’ Familiar words? Remember career criminal George Floyd, who died in appalling circumstances in Midwest America a few years ago? Remember the reaction to that and the way the police behaved?”
“Within a few days, Keir Starmer was taking the knee. Black Lives Matter exploded all over the country. Churchill's statue was defaced. The Cenotaph was vandalised. And yet, what has the public reaction been from our leaders and politicians? Indeed, to be frank, much of the media did this. Silence. Absolute silence. Proof, if ever there was any, that we're living in a two-tier culture in this country, where the rights and privileges of white people matter less than those of ethnic minorities.”
“The most important thing that has to change if our society is not to be ripped apart, where communities start to distrust each other and deeply distrust the police and all the other institutions of this country, is we need a change in culture. Enough of anti-white prejudice. A promotion of the idea that white lives matter just as much as black lives. An end to DEI and positive discrimination, but a country that treats everybody equally and fairly before the law. This is serious. This is urgent. I fear for where our society would be in a few short years if we don't grip this and do it very, very quickly."
“I want to send my sincerest condolences to Henry's family. I hope this is the last time a British police force operates in this way. But the fish rots from the head down. It is up to government and police chiefs to change this culture and to start that process today.”
