@CalMcN1@BBCPolitics They treated him as a stereotype not as a person, a stereotype drilled into them through anti racism training, society & media commentary & politicians who regularly demonise white males as far right thugs, they saw what they were preprogramed to see a white drunken racist
They assumed the role of Judge & Jury, I don't think you have mate instead of law enforces, fact & evidence gatherers with a duty of care & protection to all those involved. Henry was innocent but even if he hadn't been their first response should have been to check for injury
Police officers faced with two competing allegations: a visibly incapacitated man claiming he had been stabbed; and an unharmed man claiming to have been racially assaulted. The former was treated with contempt by the police and immediately disbelieved. The latter assumed to be truthful. Why?
“The fear of being seen as racist… is being put above keeping the public safe”
Shadow equalities minister Claire Coutinho says the facts of the Henry Nowak murder show "a discrepancy in how people are being treated" by the police
#BBCLauraK https://t.co/CkTHGctZ4k
Racism is always discussed as though white people can only be perpetrators and never victims. That is wrong. The law should not see colour. It should see conduct. There must be no hierarchy of victims, no hierarchy of racism and no hierarchy of protection.
@oJARDINEo@DavidLammy The Judge himself treated the 21cm dagger under the religious exemption which meant Digwa had a 'good reason' for carrying it until he used it.
As a result, Digwa's sentence started 10 years less than it would have otherwise
How can Lammy not know this?
Answer: he's deflecting
If Sikhs are allowed to carry a knife & native British people can't. That's two-tier policing.
@DavidLammy said two minutes before this that there is no such thing as two-tier policing, but justifies the kirpan.
This man is a danger to the British public. #BBCLauraK
Sky's @TrevorPTweets, a former head of the Commission for Racial Equality, says he feel "rage" because the Henry Nowak case is one of many examples of "misjudgements about people based on their race leading to a young life being cut short."
He shares three other examples ⬇️
He must think so. Rage & fury when in opposition fine, unless you're Farage. The knots they tie themselves in when their own hypocrisy is pointed out to them. Always forgetting Reform got 4 million odd votes last GE & he's there to represent & speak for them.
"I don’t recognise two-tier policing”
Justice Secretary David Lammy says white people are not treated worse than ethnic minorities by police but also that the UK has “moved on” from institutional racism against minorities in policing
#BBCLauraK https://t.co/CkTHGctZ4k
In order to fix a problem they've created a new problem, it's an over correction that needs to be firstly acknowledged exists & then changes made in training, in policy, in application to restore balance & equal treatment without fear or favour for all regardless of ethnicity
@BBCPolitics This fool has learned nothing! The kind of anti-immigrant racist treatment he's talking about happened in the past tense, not now. Clearly the pendulum has swung too far the other way towards anti-white racism.
If 5 men from an ethnic minority group stab someone 5 men should be arrested & convicted. equality of outcomes? what does that even mean, oh you number 4 you can go free we've hit our quota already this month we only have places for majority group stabbers left
@BBCPolitics Wrong, absolutely and unequivocally wrong, and this statement is sponsored by every Chief Constable in Britain, and there are training courses ran by the College of Policing, training the Police to treat people differently. https://t.co/ocaJNz831E
"The starting point is… we are all equal before the law”
Deputy PM David Lammy is asked if ethnicity should be taken into account in the handling of crime and says “context sometimes matters” due to a history of disproportionate treatment
#BBCLauraK https://t.co/CkTHGctZ4k
Henry was the victim but treated by Police as a liar & racist as he bled out by a compromised Police force who because of their training & fear of reprisals give more weight & credence now to accusations of racism than anything else & the killer knew & used that to his advantage
"It brought back memories of George Floyd."
Deputy prime minister David Lammy tells @TrevorPTweets seeing the footage of Henry Nowak was 'deeply traumatic', and the perpetrator's actions were 'sickening'.
https://t.co/qc8rihD70g
#TrevorPhillips
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🚨NEWS: The UK Home Office has admitted it has effectively lost the vast majority of failed asylum seekers, they are likely all still in the UK
"We know where some of them are, the rest are elsewhere in the country”, and that it is likely "they remain in the UK without detection”
Can you stop saying free, they're not, I as a taxpayer am being forced to pay for them when it's a parents responsibility to do that & if they don't they should be brought up on charges of neglect
10 million free breakfasts served is a massive achievement.
It's not just about the breakfast, it's the club too. A softer start to the day that gets children ready to learn and helps parents juggle work and family life.
The police like other public bodies and leading figures in positions of great responsibility have become paralysed by the fear of being branded racist making them dangerously risk averse. This must be confronted honestly because it leads to preventable tragedies. It’s a constant tightrope in modern life where potential reputational damage ends up overriding their fundamental duty to protect us all as a whole.
A very sad example of this is the grooming gangs scandal. For years, people hesitated to confront the horror of organised child sexual exploitation and the ethnicity and cultural patterns of many perpetrators out of concern that doing so might cause division or invite accusations of racism.
He began to walk home at 11pm, the brother called the police at 11.30pm they arrived 11.37pm, there was a hospital 1 mile away, you don't move someone with a suspected spinal injury, you shouldn't move someone who tells you they've been stabbed let alone drag then cuff them
What's the time elapsed between the stab wounds and the time the police arrived and manhandled him? There's no doubt this kid was in tough shape, but it doesn't take that long for someone to bleed out from major vein/artery damage like the pathologist described, particularly if their hearts racing from fear/anxiety. WHEN did the tear occur?
It's the fact that accusations of racism were weaponised by the killers family because they know, everyone knows that those accusations would hold sway & influence the Police response which they did, stabbed? don't think so mate, to Digwa, you okay, did he hurt you?
It isn’t the unstoppable death, Gavin.
It’s the fact he was handcuffed in his dying moments by uncaring police officers.
It’s the fact he was treated like a criminal in his dying moments.
It’s the fact he wasn’t believed in his dying moments.
The state failed him.
Henry began his walk home at 11pm, police arrived 11.37pm, in that 37 mins he was stabbed, the Digwa family didn't call an ambulance or rush him to the hospital 1 mile away the brother phoned the police to accuse him of racism because they knew it would have power & it did
Interesting how many people I've seen asserting that had the officers acted differently Henry Nowak would not have died. The inquest and IOPC report really can't come soon enough for everyone.