"Robot Cops Mistook Henry Nowak's Killer for a Victim Due to Race – It's Time to Eliminate Dangerous Ideologies"

IT is difficult to imagine a more damning indictment of the state of modern policing than the body-cam footage of Henry Nowak dying.

Minutes lying prostrate on the ground in agony, telling the police officers that he had been stabbed while they cuff him and tell him, “Don’t think you have, mate”.

Vickrum Digwa speaking with police just before they arrest Henry Nowak who Digwa had just stabbed Credit: Hampshire Police/Solent News & Photo Agency The moment Henry Nowak is cuffed by officers after being stabbed Credit: PA

No incident could more clearly demonstrate the impact of the poisonous ideology which has infected the police – along with many other public sector organisations.

Officers have been taught that the single most important factor in society is racism, and that it is their role as the police to counter that.

So-called Critical Race Theory (CRT) holds that white people are inherently racist and so society is itself racist.

To be anti-racist, you must start from the recognition that all white people are racist and all non-whites are victims of racism.

Henry Nowak in the hours before his murder Credit: Solent The murder weapon used by Vickrum Digwa to kill Henry Nowak Credit: PA Henry Nowak, 18, died in the attack in Southampton on 3 December Credit: Solent British Sikh man Vickrum Digwa was jailed for life with a minimum of 21 years Credit: AFP

That helps explain why the police officers who attended behaved like woke robots – immediately assuming that his murderer was the victim, because as a non-white he said he was.

Despite the evidence of their own eyes, with Henry dying on the ground in front of them.

Hampshire Constabulary’s Race Action Plan (the murder took place in Southampton) has forced officers to undergo race training to “educate the workforce on organisational culture, biases, banter, microaggressions, privilege and the importance of being an ally”.

This is classic Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) jargon, the parallel ideology which sits alongside CRT.

Similarly, the College of Policing mandates officers to “respond positively to allegations, signs and perceptions of hostility and hate…officers and staff should not challenge this initial perception”.

Acting in accord with these new principles is “mandatory” for officers and is now “linked to pay progression”.

The proponents of CRT and DEI are Maoist in their insistence that no questioning or disagreement is permitted – and is itself evidence of racism.

When Rick Prior, former chair of the Met Police Federation said that “there seems to be an assumption of racism right from the off, particularly when it’s a white officer and a member of the public from a minority ethnic community”, he was immediately sacked and labelled a racist.

Raise these issues and you are dismissed not only as racist but as pushing “culture wars”.

But the video of Henry Nowak’s dying minutes shows how vital it is that these grotesque ideologies are rooted out.

If that is a culture war, it is one that must be fought as an urgent priority.