Henry Nowak

[rolloverbeethoven]

Heard of him? Probably not, because there seems to be an almost complete news blackout about him. Basically the police handcuffed him and let him bleed out because they thought he may have said something racist - he didn't, it was a lie told by his murderer. Henry was 18.

If the lad in cuffs had been black,London would be smouldering by now.

RIP to the victim. The police were an absolute disgrace. This cannot be allowed to be brushed under the carpet. If we rioted over a black guy that was a career criminal and a woman abuser that was killed in a completely different country, I see no reason why it should be any different here?

And it wouldn’t just have people fighting racism by liberating Nike's 2026 summer range, you'd have every politician demanding change and corporations falling over themselves to ally with the victim and post about how virtuous they are.

So Edward’s human rights stood for nothing! We are in strange times.

It is worth looking up the case. It really is shocking.

Yes. And all the idiotic folk who deny systemic reverse racism will cry - how awful you far right racist nasty people. So predictable. Meanwhile what will Starmer do - fck all as always. He may say 'it's appalling' , but no one will know or care what he's talking about because it's so utterly meaningless.

The terrible irony being that many Sikhs were sympathetic to him BC of grooming gangs.

Kemi Badenoch just posted "all lives matter"

https://nitter.net/KemiBadenoch/status/2061735363127730232#m

If someone had posted that in 2020 in response to BLM it would have been taken as a code that you were a white supremacist

Have they yet?

Indeed.

KB:
'I don’t want to hear about Black Lives Matter.
I don’t want to hear about White Lives Matter.
Everyone matters. Henry Nowak matters'.

Absolutely. I just wasn’t aware that anyone, inc for religious beliefs, was allowed to carry an offensive weapon.

Looks like the father and brother are going to be charged now too. Good.
I'm absolutely fuming at the statement from the Digwa family.

I'm so sorry for your friends son and your friend. That's horrific.

KS is a waste of space. As is his shit racist misogynistic party.

Can you put it here? I've not seen it.

Only Politics UK on X so far, which is why I've caveated with "looks like":

https://x.com/PolitlcsUK/status/2061750708819447986

The statement from the Digwa family is a disgrace and very ‘I’m sorry you feel that way, but more sorry our reputation in our religious community is damaged’

I hope the entire Digwa family get imprisoned for a very long time and then deported. I was listening to Henry Nowak's father giving his dignified statement and then reading the transcript of the phone call made to the police. It's quite a contrast. Exact quote:-

“We’ve just got attacked racially by some white person. He’s physically attacked my brother, we’re Sikhs, we wear a turban and he’s just attacked my brother. We’re restraining him right now because he’s just attacked my brother and took my brother’s turban off. He also said, he’s verbally attacked my brother racially. I’m not having this as a regular occurrence, I live here, I’m not having this a regular occurrence. He ain’t fighting people, he’s racially attacking people, that’s what he’s doing. Nah, he sees some brown people, that’s what it was.”

Starmer issued a statement.

https://nitter.net/Keir_Starmer/status/2061506435859845244#m

There might be a formal statement in the commons later also.

Zack Polanski was fairly quick to condemn the cops kicking the attacker in golders green but not seen any statement from him yet on this. This just shows how terminally tribal the online political culture is. The go to influencers that a lot of people would look to on this are sort of trying to find appropriate things to say.

Owen Jones has posted a #BeKind statement from Nowaks family

https://nitter.net/owenjonesjourno/status/2061752588626764167#m

Or ignoring it. I understand why they'd do that. It's not comfortable to their narrative (society is prejudiced. We are the oppressed ones here. This doesn't fit our worldview. No that can't be) But in the meantime the silence is deafening

Zack Polanski was fairly quick to condemn the cops kicking the attacker in golders green but not seen any statement from him yet on this.

Well, knock me down with the world’s smallest feather. He doesn’t do much for his ‘I’m not on anyone’s side, I just want fairness’ with this type of thing does he?

The Digwa’s statement was to protect the Sikh community. They are a disgrace. I hope that the wider family can be charged. They have no defence, they are rotten.

I wish people would ignore the irrelevance that Owen Jones is.

Do you not think the Nowaks' wishes should be respected? I get that you might not like OJ. I dislike him myself. It doesn't mean he is wrong about everything. Even the not-very-woke-at-all Dan Hodges has posted this. I am not sure I like his language, but he is saying the same as OJ.

Me too. Does he still write for the Guardian? I stopped reading his columns years ago when he revealed his anti-woman prejudices.

Apologies for derailing, that isn't relevant to this thread.

Unfortunately this issue is too important not to be discussed, whatever the Nowak family has said. It has repercussions for wider society and highlights what a mess this country is in.

I’m glad the judge and jury didn’t believe a word of the ‘self defence’ rubbish. As if anyone could believe a teenage boy below average size would attack a man significantly larger than him who also happened to be carrying a visible sword.

This makes me so angry as if it wasn’t for the fact that Henry’s phone was recording and it was found in the murderer’s pocket the world wouldn’t know the scheming liar had removed his own turban to further his despicable lies about an innocent lad. I say lad as he wasn’t long out of school. It’s sickening.

This guy is raging about this, from the same community.