Panonse

Human person. Cynic, fatalist, often wrong, will try out thoughts. "Likes" and reposts not endorsements.

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

Last Tuesday, Israel's Arab-majority party held a Knesset session on Israeli settler terrorism in the West Bank. Coalition lawmakers burst in, threatening attendees and stealing their food.

Religious Zionism's Zvi Sukkot declared to those present: "We will transfer you, but we'll keep it classy. We'll put you on organized buses and stick to the law."

Now imagine an Arab lawmaker saying that to Jewish MKs. They'd be in handcuffs before they left the building. But when it's the other way around, it's just another Tuesday in the Knesset.

[Thanos Angelopoulos @Th_Angelopoulos]

A certain group of people are treating the Nowak case as if DEI training caused a one-off failure. It wasn't a one-off. This is a pattern of officers not following basic duty of care, and it has nothing to do with diversity training.

Case 1: Stephen Reardon, July 2023. Arrested in St Austell, collapsed minutes into a police van journey. CCTV showed him having seizures and visibly trembling. The officer watching through the Perspex divide said he was "playing games". His name was called 63 times. No response. He spent 22 minutes on the van floor. Neither officer stopped to check on him despite both being first-aid trained. Found dead at the station. Both officers dismissed for gross misconduct.

Case 2: Jerome Cowan, December 2022. Found slumped in a Coventry library toilet, intoxicated, unable to stand or stay awake. Officers removed him from the cubicle and placed him on the floor. He stopped breathing. Died in hospital. The inquest found missed opportunities in the level of care that may have contributed to his death. The IOPC found failures to provide first aid and to treat him with dignity. Three constables and a PCSO now face gross misconduct proceedings.

Case 3: Man in St Erth, November 2022. Found drunk and vulnerable outside a railway station at 1am on a cold autumn night. Officers called an ambulance but left before it arrived. Didn't move him to shelter. Didn't cover him. Drove past at 2:20am without stopping. Returned at 5am to find him rain-soaked, then sat in their car rather than providing aid. His condition deteriorated. He died in hospital. Both officers dismissed.

Same failure every time. A person in distress needs help. Officers dismiss it, delay, or walk away. No first aid. No urgency. No basic human response. Not a single one of these cases involved DEI training as a factor.

The problem isn't a diversity course. The problem is a culture where officers treat vulnerable people in their care as an inconvenience. DEI is the scapegoat. The conduct is the issue.

[Breaking the Silence @BtSIsrael]

Contrary to the impression Israel seeks to create, its campaign of ethnic cleansing and forced displacement in the West Bank is not merely the result of sporadic settler violence. The violence is anything but sporadic, and settlers, in fact, play only a secondary role in it. As with nearly everything in the West Bank, the main driving force is the IDF. @Bryakoby, our Director of Media and Communications, made this point before a special Knesset committee chaired by MKs Ofer Cassif and Aida Touma-Suleiman of Hadash.

[Thanos Angelopoulos @Th_Angelopoulos]

You say that post-Floyd DEI training created the policing culture that killed Henry Nowak. This is testable. If you're right, the pattern should begin after 2020. It doesn't.

Christopher Alder, 1998. Falklands veteran. Dragged handcuffed and unconscious into a Hull custody suite. Left face down on the floor. Officers stood around while he choked to death. Ten minutes before anyone helped. Inquest: unlawful killing. Five officers charged. All acquitted.

Sean Rigg, 2008. Schizophrenic man, died at Brixton police station after restraint. Inquest found "unsuitable and unnecessary force" and police failings "more than minimally" contributed to his death.

Robert Edwards, 2011. Died in a Suffolk cell. The IPCC found police "failed to take appropriate care" and didn't carry out proper welfare checks. The coroner said he should never have been deemed fit for detention.

Wayne Couzens, 2015–2021. Reported for indecent exposure in 2015. Kent Police had his name, address, and plate number. The investigating sergeant knew his brother, also a police officer. No action. Failed vetting twice, still became a Met officer. Exposed himself days before murdering Sarah Everard. The investigating officer lied about CCTV. Three forces had twenty years of red flags. Nothing to do with DEI

Post-Floyd, still no DEI involvement: Stephen Reardon, 2023, had seizures in a police van while the officer said he was "playing games". Died. Jerome Cowan, 2022, found unresponsive in a library, officers failed to provide first aid. Died. A man at St Erth, 2022, left drunk and vulnerable outside a railway station on a cold night, officers drove past without stopping. Died. All officers dismissed or facing gross misconduct.

Same pattern every time. A person in distress needs help, officers dismiss it or walk away. It happened in 1998, 2008, 2011, 2022, 2023, and 2025. DEI didn't create it. It predates it by a generation.

You also claim "determined, institutional silence". The Speaker acknowledged the case on 1 June. The Home Secretary called it "a horrifying act" and Digwa's false accusation "an evil act" in an oral statement to the Commons on 2 June. Debated in both Houses. Starmer and Baddenoch clashed over it. Front-page news for a week. There is no silence. You invented it because your baseless argument needs it.

You ask pretentiously what you call a system where a dying teenager's word counts for less than his killer's.

I'd ask you: what do you call a system where Christopher Alder choked to death on a custody floor in 1998 while officers stood around, and twenty-seven years later Henry Nowak bled to death saying the same words?

That is an ideology. But not the one you're describing. It's an institutional ideology of indifference to people in police custody, and it has been killing people for decades.

Blaming a training course that's existed for five years for a rot that's existed for hundreds of years isn't analysis. It's a deflection that protects the actual dangerous ideology.

[Panonse @panonse]

@SexMattersOrg @cityoflondon I guess they want their day in court in the hope they strike lucky and dilute the law in some way... they have the money for it but it doesn't seem like the best use of what is, supposedly at some level, public money.

[Panonse @panonse]

@ScotNational And yet if there's a leadership vote this year they'll get to choose between different supporters of Zionism ("without qualification").

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

"Never forget," they say.

But they choose what you remember.

Never forget Tiananmen.

Never forget 9/11.

Never forget the Holocaust.

But somehow, you are allowed to forget Fallujah.

You are allowed to forget Mỹ Lai.

You are allowed to forget Sabra and Shatila.

You are encouraged to forget Gaza while it is still happening.

This is not a culture of remembrance.

It is a culture of selective memory.

[Bushra Shaikh @Bushra1Shaikh]

Henry Nowak's mother has said:

"We are a family who have friends across faith and race, and so did Henry. We want his memory to help bring our society together."

And there you have it.

[Panonse @panonse]

@Channel4News People in the UK also want change - it doesn't mean they want a foreign power setting their country ablaze, blowing up school children and destroying their infrastructure.

[Philip @rulesbasedworld]

@MichaelRosenYes IDF West Bank commander changing his command said this morning that Jewish settler violence against Palestinians is a powder keg about to go off and set the region ablaze

[Panonse @panonse]

@MichaelRosenYes There's over 5 million Palestinians left in the West Bank and Gaza - what do they plan to do with all this people? Will they just leave and everyone will forget what happened and live happily ever after? What excuse will our politicians use for their silence?

[Rula Jebreal @rulajebreal]

Gideon Levy: «Ora che il genocidio è giunto al termine e la #Striscia di Gaza è stata quasi completamente distrutta, Israele sta avanzando con determinazione verso la fase successiva e [la soluzione finale del genocidio]: rendere l'intera popolazione di Gaza permanentemente invalida, ferita, malata, disabile, affamata, senza tetto e [senza futuro], malata e disoccupata».

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

.@cenkuygur: "Its weird to ban people who are against a genocide, but allow people in who are pro genocide"

But not weird when you realise the govt doing the banning has been supporting, arming & helping the regime committing that genocide.

[Niz @NizMhani]

This opens up a can of worms @NHSEngland

🔴Will poppies be banned?
🔴Will LGBTQ/Pride emblems be banned?
🔴Is a Palestinian flag with no text considered "political"?
🔴Why is a Palestinian flag considered to "anti Jewish hatred"? Is that idea not racist towards Palestinians?
🔴Will all flags, including Union Jack and St Georges Cross, be banned?
🔴Will Ukraine badges be banned?
🔴Will the Star of David be banned?
🔴Where is the line that constitutes what is "political" and what is not? Is a Keffiyah a political symbol?
🔴Can badges be worn on clothing on the way to and from work?
🔴If a Jewish person decides to wear a Palestine badge, is that Jewish person exhibiting "anti Jewish hatred"?

[Panonse @panonse]

@MichaelRosenYes I can see an argument for banning all political symbols but that should be all: Poppies, Ukraine, LGBTQ+, everything. If they're going to pick and choose what is politically appropriate then it's just plain old censorship.

[Panonse @panonse]

@Channel4News So no more Poppies and Pride? Or are political symbols pre-approved by the Government AOK?

[Panonse @panonse]

@SaulStaniforth Seems we need a specific label for religious based hatred. Racism seems to be a catchall for any form Xenophobia and Religious based hatred. But any definitions should be universal - including antisemitism.

[Panonse @panonse]

@IndiaWilloughby @RidgeandFrost Only if you know someone has a GRC in a professional capacity and disclose that information. It has no bearing on anyone else.

[Panonse @panonse]

@RidgeandFrost In the majority of cases people don't need to ask - it's obvious. The guidance is confusing on asking someone's sex and doesn't seem to align with the law - but maybe that's the idea.

[Panonse @panonse]

@RidgeandFrost Are we also doing Poppies, LGBT+ and Ukraine or are some political symbols OK? If they are who decides?