U.S. Vice President JD Vance commented on British dispute over student’s murder, blaming it on civilizational decline and failure to stop ‘mass invasion of migrants’.
Henry Nowak, an 18-year-old white man, was handcuffed by police as he died from stab wounds after his killer falsely accused him of racism. The killer, a Sikh man, received life sentence.
Video footage showed officers ignoring Nowak’s pleas, sparking questions about why they believed the racist allegation over Nowak who repeatedly said he had been stabbed and could not breathe.
Vance said on X that Nowak would be alive today if European elites stood firm against ‘self-hatred’ and mass migration. A spokesperson for Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the family did not want death used to create division or hatred.
The case sparked anger in Britain, with populist leader Nigel Farage and tech billionaire Elon Musk amplifying right-wing points about perceived two-tier policing where fear of racism leads to greater protections for ethnic minorities than others.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemned violent protest on Tuesday night and said it was ‘unforgivable’ to exploit death to stir tension after Farage called for people to respond with ‘pure cold rage’. He also told Musk to stop interfering in British politics after the tech boss repeatedly posted about the case.
The local police force rejected accusations of bias but agreed to review guidelines that were drawn up in response to decades of well-documented incidents of racism in policing on how officers should treat ethnicities differently.