In October 2024, the Free Speech Union came to the aid of Rick Prior, the elected Chair of the Metropolitan Police Federation, after he was suspended for saying that rank-and-file officers had become so fearful of complaints of racism — and potentially losing their jobs — that they no longer dared challenge allegations of racism, particularly when made by people of colour.
According to Prior, some officers were reluctant to intervene when they suspected a crime was being committed if the perpetrator was a black or brown person for fear of being accused of racism.
Fortunately, with our support, Rick Prior won his
Given the circumstance of Henry Nowak's death, it's clear that Rick Prior was right to raise these concerns.
The police have overcorrected in response to the perception that the force is institutionally racist, and that needs to be addressed.
People like Rick Prior — and other elected federation chairs — must be free to speak out about what they believe has gone wrong and propose common-sense solutions without risking suspension or dismissal.
The lack of free speech within policing on these issues has contributed to the current state of affairs in which officers appear to be more concerned about not following up accusations of racism than protecting people from violent criminals.
Watch the Free Speech Union’s General Secretary, Lord Young, below 👇
@Keir_Starmer Mr Nowak made it clear that his son was not treated with the kindness extended to the murderer. He did not say "whatever you do don't ask questions about 2 tier policing". You are, without doubt, the most shameless person to be PM, and that is saying something.
'Baroness' Doreen Lawrence has been strangely quiet on the racially motivated murder of Henry Nowak.
Weird, considering she’s been banging on about nothing else for the past 30 years
Keegan & Dalglish. The men who made the iconic Liverpool number 7 shirt.
Love and best wishes to them both with their health and well being.
🏴 🏴 7️⃣
"You are not likely to see Henry Nowak’s words stenciled on a mural. No corporation will change its logo. The same establishment that made a few words immortal when spoken by a black man in Minneapolis has met the same words, spoken by a white boy dying on a British street, with what can only be described as a determined, institutional silence. That silence is not neutral. It is a statement. It tells you exactly whose suffering the system has decided counts, and whose does not."
Dear lefties. You don't get to tell me how I should react to a story, especially when it's a brutal murder that exposes police incompetence. If you want to tell others what to think, go and live in a dictatorship.
A list of people causing division (not inclusive):
• Rapists and groomers
• Murderers
• Islamists and terrorists
• People who come to Britain illegally
• People who come here to milk the system and live off the hardworking British taxpayer
• People who expect Britain to change to suit their culture
• Police and judges who do not do their job without fear or favour
• Governments that ignore the will of the British people by allowing in millions of migrants
• Governments that silence citizen’s free speech by imprisoning and slandering them
• Those who say those complaining about the above are ‘stoking division’
We really have reached Soviet levels of gaslighting.
A man is murdered, and somehow, the real problem is that people are angry about it.
Children are gang raped, and somehow the real problem is that people keep mentioning it and “dividing communities.”
This is moral inversion.
No. Crime divides communities. Institutional failure divides communities. Cover-ups, euphemisms, cowardice, and elite contempt divide communities.
For any of you kicking off in Southampton right now, Hermer is currently signing off your public order charge.
Don’t give them what they want!
Starmer is watching the TV right now rubbing his hands together.
@DPJHodges@PaulEmbery The scum who created the division were the vile Digwa family.
All involved in murdering an innocent boy (that could easily be someone else’s son) then falsifying a ‘racist’ narrative alongside it.
There are your dividers.
BREAKING:
Keir Starmer says he won’t remove the exemption which allows Sikhs to carry large ceremonial knives on them.
Meanwhile, English women are being prosecuted for carrying regular pepper spray on them when out on the streets at night
@MrBrendanCox On what planet have you parked up your spaceship, soft lad?
Face up, you and your ilk will long continue to reap what you have sowed!
https://t.co/4V67hkOA8T
Members of the Dagwa family abused the grieving family of Henry Nowak IN THE COURTROOM!
One of them is said to have shouted 'racist' at them as a scuffle broke out.
Security and Police were forced to intervene.
The Henry Nowak case - and especially the muted reaction to it of the political establishment - says so much about what is wrong with our country. I feel that, like Southport, it will, in years to come, be seen as a pivotal moment causing a shift in the public mood. People can see what’s going on, and they are growing more and more angry.