The murder of Henry Nowak, accompanied by the heinous response of the police officers at the scene, has received little attention from media outlets and left-wing activists in the past week, despite being a horrific instance of actual police brutality. Nowak, an 18 year old Polish man living in the United Kingdom, was brutally stabbed with a dagger by an older Sikh Indian man  in Southampton on December 3rd, 2025. The attacker’s brother then called the police to falsely report Nowak had racially abused him, and when the police showed up, they were quick to take the side of the perpetrator. Even when Nowak showed them his wounds, the police refused to believe that he had been stabbed and kept him handcuffed; his death occurred moments later. 

The details of the stabber’s sentencing was completed and made public in May, but the response from the British government has been notably mild in comparison to its reaction to the murder of George Floyd. This is despite the fact that Floyd’s murder occurred thousands of miles away in Minnesota and he had multiple criminal convictions before May 2020, in contrast to Nowak, who lived a life of only good behavior. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has insisted that Nowak’s murder should not be exploited for political gain, while six years ago, weaponized Floyd’s murder in order to villanize Trump and American conservatives. Starmer’s Deputy Prime Minister, David Lammy, also fired back at Vice President J.D. Vance’s assertion that Nowak’s murder should be linked to mass migration. Elites in academia constantly assert that there is widespread white privilege and systemic racism against non-whites in Western countries, but Nowak’s murder proves otherwise. This is nowhere close to the first time that the United Kingdom has been more concerned about being labelled as racist for tackling non-White criminals than protecting its innocent civilians, nor is it the last. 

The murderer’s Indian family members, such as his father and aforementioned brother, have been arrested for illegal possession of a wide range of weapons, and his mother is currently awaiting sentencing for providing the knife used to slaughter Nowak. Much of the other crime amongst immigrant communities in the United Kingdom have also been horrifically ignored or covered up for years. The Pakistani grooming gangs, that caused the mass rape of many young British women in the 21st century have been enabled by the Labour Party’s Mayor Andy Burnham and other councils. Analyses repeatedly show that migrants from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia are astronomically more likely to commit violent crimes than native Brits, yet the British government refuses to halt immigration from those countries. And given the hordes of illegal migrants, mainly young and fighting-aged men, flooding into Britain each week from across the English channel with the goal of claiming asylum, these crises will only get worse. 

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