A jury inquest has been granted into the death of Henry Nowak.
That is a significant development.
Jury inquests are uncommon and are usually reserved for cases where there are important questions that need answering in the public interest.
The coroner’s decision sends a clear message: this case deserves the fullest possible scrutiny.
@Jenny_1884 There’s been enough suffering.
Do you think Henry Nowak’s family would want that?
His father said :
“We do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension."
@Jenny_1884 It was tragic. More so because they are the product of EDI training.
They should have made an assessment based on their own judgement.
Lets hope this police race action plan is completely reviewed.
@Jenny_1884 They have been moved off front-line duties while the IPCC investigate the incident.
Would you rather they be suspended, left with no support,while dealing with the realisation of the truth of what they attended to.
Several serving and former Hampshire Police Officers have told me that ‘we had it drummed into us about our white privilege and unconscious bias’.
Training was outsourced to a third party company and the trainer ‘was deeply hateful of white people and our culture.’
Officers have reported to me about being furious but unable to complain out of fear for their jobs.
This is exactly why I blocked the Race Action Plan as Home Secretary.
It is disgraceful that this stuff went on in policing. And the PCC and CC need to be held to account.
So here’s the truth. The Times is reporting a number of police officers in Hampshire - the force responsible for the Henry Nowak arrest- felt “ controlled and pressured to feel certain ways” after receiving mandatory diversity training, a survey has revealed.
The courses taught officers about racism, “unconscious bias”, “ privilege and the importance of being an ally.”
A staff survey found one in seven officers and staff (15%) had felt “ controlled and pressured” to adopt certain ideas in the sessions and the same number thought “ mistakes would be held against me”.
A fifth feared being “ rejected for saying the wrong thing”.
So Hampshire police , and I suspect every police force in the land , is having DEI shoved down their throats leading, inevitably, to a white lad dying on our streets because white officers had been trained to always believe a violent criminal from a minority background.
Tonight I would sack Hampshire’s bloody awful chief Constable Alexis Boon who said there was no two-tier policing when the survey proves there was.
He doesn’t know his own officers. Never speaks to them in depth only ever inspects them
My advice to Mr Boon; Get out of Hampshire and get back to the Met where your thoughts will more welcome.
I’ve been reading the judgment in the Henry Nowak case. The judge says the police officers at the scene were misled by lies told to them. Believing Henry was the offender, they arrested and handcuffed him.
Moments later they realised he had a serious chest wound and began desperately trying to save his life. As a result the judge concluded that the officers did their best in extremely difficult circumstances.
Perhaps.
However, Henry was bleeding; he told the officer he’d been stabbed and he was struggling to breathe. Shouldn’t that have prompted a more thorough search for injuries before the handcuffs came out and were snapped onto his wrists?
The judge says the wound wasn’t obvious. It was dark and Henry was wearing a dark top. He also pointed out in his judgment that the officers had been given a convincing but false account of what had happened.
All of which may be true, but what he is not doing is ruling on whether the police response was correct. That’s for the separate investigations now under way.
However, if someone gasps that they’ve been stabbed is it unreasonable to expect that possibility to be investigated first? In those circumstances, should concern for a potentially life-threatening injury take precedence over treating someone as a suspect?
Genuine question.
It is not the natural order of things for your child to die before you and under such devastating circumstances. My thoughts are with his parents as Henry’s murderer is sentenced to life in prison.
@KayBurley If ALL of the BWV had been shown the public would have been aware of everything the police did.
It seems the media aren’t interested in that.