Henry Nowak’s death exposed Britain’s two-tier justice system

 A young white man crying out that he couldn’t breathe was ignored, then died while in the hands of police, and the British political establishment has declared, “Don’t you dare politicize this,” as protests erupt around the country.

What a difference skin color makes, right?

Last December, Vickrum Digwa, a Sikh man, stabbed and killed 18-year-old Henry Nowak in Southampton with his ceremonial knife. Digwa was convicted on Monday, and the police video was released. The released video has triggered protests around the country.

I’m putting the video here because I think it’s necessary. But be warned, it’s deeply disturbing.

WARNING: DISTURBING VIDEO

Nowak can be seen on the ground, growing paler by the second, mumbling that he’d been stabbed as the police question him and Digwa — who had knifed him moments earlier.

The dying man, who was in obvious distress, kept pleading for help and saying he couldn’t breathe.

When he said he’d been stabbed, the officer responded, “I don’t think you have mate,” as they put him in handcuffs. The officers showed far deeper concern for Digwa, who peddled a now-proven false tale about how Nowak had been racist toward him and grabbed his turban.

Nowak wasn’t being disruptive; he wasn’t resisting police. He was simply pleading for help. There isn’t much to contextualize here or to debate. 

It’s hard to watch the video without being sickened and enraged.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage called it a “wake-up call” and a watershed moment for his country.

“It marks a moment when we collectively, as a nation, need to take a step back and take a long, hard look at ourselves and ask what on earth we have become,” Farage wrote for The Telegraph. “That barbarous act was bad enough. But what compounded the horror, and shocked so many of us to the core, was the behavior of the police officers who subsequently arrived on the scene. … Far from assisting the dying teenager, the police’s focus from beginning to end was on the allegation made by the assailant’s brother that they had been ‘attacked and racially abused by a white guy.’”

I agree with Farage. In the name of “anti-racism” and the cause of multiculturalism, Western societies have created two-tier systems whereby those deemed the “oppressed” are held to different, and frequently much lower standards than the “oppressors.”

That wave sort of crested in the United States, for now, as the high tide of DEI, critical race theory, defunding the police, and a whole host of woke policies have been repudiated. At the very least, those ideas are now being seriously challenged, both culturally and legally.

The Great Awokening hit the U.K., too, and continues crashing through its society without abatement. It became worse in the U.K. as it crossed the Rubicon into outright censorship of people who question, for instance, the benefit of mass immigration.

It is creating a pernicious two-tiered legal system that is fast abandoning the ideal of colorblind justice.

It’s the interaction between the officer and Digwa that highlights this problem and makes the video so notable and grotesque. 

Henry Nowak’s death exposed Britain’s two-tier justice system