An anonymously written June 2 WorldNetDaily article complained:
Outrage in the U.K. over the arrest and death of an 18-year-old young man after he had been stabbed five times, allegedly by a Sikh who was standing nearby during the arrest, has resulted in a large protest in Southampton where angry demonstrators confronted police.
Bodycam footage of the arrest recently released shows police handcuffing the teenager, Henry Nowak, as he bled from his wounds and complained that he couldn’t breathe. An officer asks Nowak what happened, and he responds, “I’ve been stabbed.”
The policeman asks, “You’ve been stabbed? Where abouts? I don’t think you have, mate.”
It turns out Nowak had been stabbed in the heart and soon died of his injuries.
The 23-year-old Sikh man, Vickrum Digwa, was reportedly allowed to carry a knife for religious reasons. When police responded to the incident, which occurred in December, Digwa reportedly said he was a victim of racially motivated “hate speech” by Nowak, so police handcuffed the teen instead of him.
The article omits inconvenient fact sto play up outrage. As one observer pointed out, Nowak was wearing a dark shirt so the location of stab wounds would not have been obvious, Digwa falsely claimed that Nowak used “hate speech” toward him, and Nowak’s condition did not deteriorate until after he had been handcuffed, adding that “It is the experience of the criminal courts that sometimes, someone arrested and handcuffed will feign injury in the hope they may be released.”
The same day, Jack Cashill — who loves to defend straight white men — weighed in:
On Monday, Hampshire Police finally released the bodycam footage showing the arrest of the dying Henry Nowak, and Great Britain may never be the same. That would be a good thing. In 2020, Britain wallowed in a paroxysm of guilt and rage over the Minneapolis death of George Floyd, but until Monday Brits remained largely passive over a death in police custody many times more shocking than Floyd’s.
The arresting officers deserve their share of the blame, but their performance was not at all surprising. In a bi-polar police state desperately afraid of its own minorities, law enforcement routinely goes full Orwell on white citizens while ignoring real crimes committed by non-whites. The video shows in three minutes how perversely this unspoken policy played out in real life.
[…]Said Judge William Mousley, “There has been a trend towards younger people wearing a kirpan with pride, in a desire to express their cultural identity. They see it as an act of resistance to being denied the ability otherwise to display their identity.” For religious reasons, authorities have given Sikhs a pass on the law banning bladed articles in a public place. Those authorities have also encouraged Sikhs to seek out an “identity” other than British.
[…]Yes, both Floyd and Nowak said “I can’t breathe” while being arrested. In the U.S., Minnesota authorities suppressed the exculpatory bodycam footage to nail the cops. In the U.K., authorities slow-walked the incriminating bodycam footage to protect a police force rendered absurd by their own insane polices. In either case, justice was sacrificed to advance a global woke agenda.
Cashill hid the fact that there was good reason for police to behave the way they did in Nowak’s death, and that they eventually got it right. Instead, he’s overly thrilled to bring up George Floyd again in a disparaging way.
Neither Cashill nor the anonymous WND writer noted the fact that anti-immigration right-wingers have seized on Nowak’ death, or that protesters battled with police.