I can only agree as well, it is always a relief when somone who sees things as they are, and not as someone else who has put a self-serving slant on it. Many thanks, Andrew.
Remove the college of policing & stop continuous education @ 16 to be replaced with National & Community Service then go back to study, once you’ve served your country & a community. This means you learn to be fit - work in hospitals - on farms - care for the elderly - clean parks - etc in the 1980s my mother was a teacher & she realised that certain children were being set up to fail - she believed that it was better to make children passionate about learning so later in life they’d go back to study. Learning to fail is not the same as being set up to fail the consequences of which we can see today.
Never mind who said what and what training they had. There is no excuse for not being human being. They didn't know he was stabbed? They could have checked! They had 60 min to save his life and did nothing. If this was an injured bird they would have called help.
The callousness of the officers towards this young man fills me with sadness. No one comforts him, he's dragged on the floor and handcuffed while the police fawn over his murderer. What a horrible death.
The body cam footage is horrendous. The smug, sneering tone of the officer - I can’t find the words. The stupidity of them. If someone had committed an act of racist abuse would they have simply laid down on the ground and waited to be arrested when the police were called? I very much want to know who these officers are and hear their explanation for this obscene act.
Corruption can take many forms. It is not always the taking of bribes, it is also anything which deliberately detracts an official from their duty. The police service in this country has now been politically corrupted, and this filters from the top - and in this case not simply to the two officers who attended the scene, but also the Call Operator who prioritised the call simply on the allegation that the “P” word had been used. The police also revealed their corruption when banning a group of Israeli football fans (and falsifying evidence to justify that), simply because some Islamists said they don’t like the country they were coming from. Starmer should now first publicly take the knee in respect to Henry Novak, and then make the de-corruption of the police a priority
Given that the 'progressive' Left sees everything through the distorted lens of racial grievance, it really is too much to have them lecture us on the politicisation of Henry's murder. Where are the burning cities, where are the celebrities and politicians taking the knee, where are the 'far right' groups exploiting the case for industrial scale embezzlement and the purchase of mansions?
Truly. Aren't we who feel sadness and outrage allowed to publicly demonstrate our feelings? Because the young victim had white skin, a neat haircut and was called "Henry"?
Thank you Andrew. And thank you particularly for reporting about the police guidance that encourages equitable rather than equal treatment. I have not read about that anywhere else. And our unfeeling coward of a Prime Minister has the gall to stand there saying that there is no such thing as two tier policing when it's written there for all to see. It makes me so angry.
Just read the article in the FT "Minister condemns riots.." where "right-wing leaders Nigel Farage and Rupert Lowe called for the public to respond with “rage”". Elsewhere I've seen "cold rage". The FT used to be a good paper. Now it's obviously biased. Also claims that officers were acting in good faith as they couldn't tell Nowak was injured. I just can't see how someone who dies from his injuries can look so healthy and normal that you believe his killer. The explanation that Vickrum was carrying a knife which is allowed for religious purposes is glossed over without comment.
Two simple aphorisms spring to mind: 'There are none so blind as those that do not want to see.' and also: 'There are none so deaf as those that do not want to hear.'
I know nothing about the Spanish publication so will refrain from comment about it but the fact that The Guardian has responded to Nigel Farage's speech with slurs and (now) meaningless labels is no surprise to me at all. The Guardian is, it seems, nothing more than an ideologically captured, activist staffed, mouthpiece for the illiberal, Western World hating, hard-left. What would surprise me though would be someone from The Guardian having the coutage, not to mention the common courtesy, to explain to us all just why it is that the reaction of the British public to Henry Nowak's murder, and the inhuman treatment he received from the police, should not be 'cold hard rage'. Not rage against the Sikh community, which was never what Nigel Farage intended in any case, and which would be wholly unwarranted. But cold hard rage against the decades of deliberate, and systematic, ideological brainwashing which has so corrupted and degraded all of our institutions, but especially the police forces of this country, to the degree that they (the police officers) now react to events by first considering the skin colour, sexuality and ethnicity of complainant and alleged perpetrator before they even bother to remember their supposed duty to show fairness, impartiality and care to, and for, all concerned.
I steeled myself to watch the body-cam footage of the police officers who attended the incident and was shocked beyond belief to witness the harrowing moments as a young man's life slipped away as the police officers concerned dragged him around, handcuffed him and read him his rights as he lay dying at their feet. Not only did they ignore his pleas for help one of the officers even said "I don't think you have mate'" when Henry informed them that he had been stabbed. Cold, hard rage is exactly what I feel; and that rage is directed with a laser focus towards the leadership of the police which has so corrupted, by it's deliberate, malign intentions, the training and ethos of its officers to such an extent that they can now behave so appallingly.
I have, for most of my life, held the police forces of the UK in high esteem thinking they were amongst the best in the world. Now, sadly, we know the truth: they are amongst the best in the world no longer. Shame on all those who hold positions of authority within, and power to decide policy for, the police forces of the UK. They are traitors to justice, to fairness and, most egregiously, to the reputations of those on the front line of policing who have to enact their divisive, hate-fueled doctrines.
"the use of the handcuffs is just impossible to explain." -- meaning within PACE Codes of Practice, which must trump race action plans or whatever when it comes to operational decisions like this. This detention was surely non-compliant re PACE for the reasons the MP cites. Police officers must be deradicalised and we should probably make any officer who has joined in the last 15 years redo their basic training.
Thank you. It is pleasing to see someone thinks the same as me, and I expect millions of others. My laboured 'take' lacks such simple clarity.
I can only agree as well, it is always a relief when somone who sees things as they are, and not as someone else who has put a self-serving slant on it. Many thanks, Andrew.
Remove the college of policing & stop continuous education @ 16 to be replaced with National & Community Service then go back to study, once you’ve served your country & a community. This means you learn to be fit - work in hospitals - on farms - care for the elderly - clean parks - etc in the 1980s my mother was a teacher & she realised that certain children were being set up to fail - she believed that it was better to make children passionate about learning so later in life they’d go back to study. Learning to fail is not the same as being set up to fail the consequences of which we can see today.
Never mind who said what and what training they had. There is no excuse for not being human being. They didn't know he was stabbed? They could have checked! They had 60 min to save his life and did nothing. If this was an injured bird they would have called help.
The callousness of the officers towards this young man fills me with sadness. No one comforts him, he's dragged on the floor and handcuffed while the police fawn over his murderer. What a horrible death.
The body cam footage is horrendous. The smug, sneering tone of the officer - I can’t find the words. The stupidity of them. If someone had committed an act of racist abuse would they have simply laid down on the ground and waited to be arrested when the police were called? I very much want to know who these officers are and hear their explanation for this obscene act.
Corruption can take many forms. It is not always the taking of bribes, it is also anything which deliberately detracts an official from their duty. The police service in this country has now been politically corrupted, and this filters from the top - and in this case not simply to the two officers who attended the scene, but also the Call Operator who prioritised the call simply on the allegation that the “P” word had been used. The police also revealed their corruption when banning a group of Israeli football fans (and falsifying evidence to justify that), simply because some Islamists said they don’t like the country they were coming from. Starmer should now first publicly take the knee in respect to Henry Novak, and then make the de-corruption of the police a priority
Given that the 'progressive' Left sees everything through the distorted lens of racial grievance, it really is too much to have them lecture us on the politicisation of Henry's murder. Where are the burning cities, where are the celebrities and politicians taking the knee, where are the 'far right' groups exploiting the case for industrial scale embezzlement and the purchase of mansions?
Truly. Aren't we who feel sadness and outrage allowed to publicly demonstrate our feelings? Because the young victim had white skin, a neat haircut and was called "Henry"?
Thank you Andrew that is spot on!
Thank you Andrew. And thank you particularly for reporting about the police guidance that encourages equitable rather than equal treatment. I have not read about that anywhere else. And our unfeeling coward of a Prime Minister has the gall to stand there saying that there is no such thing as two tier policing when it's written there for all to see. It makes me so angry.
Just read the article in the FT "Minister condemns riots.." where "right-wing leaders Nigel Farage and Rupert Lowe called for the public to respond with “rage”". Elsewhere I've seen "cold rage". The FT used to be a good paper. Now it's obviously biased. Also claims that officers were acting in good faith as they couldn't tell Nowak was injured. I just can't see how someone who dies from his injuries can look so healthy and normal that you believe his killer. The explanation that Vickrum was carrying a knife which is allowed for religious purposes is glossed over without comment.
Another excellent piece and so spot on, thank you Andrew!!
Two simple aphorisms spring to mind: 'There are none so blind as those that do not want to see.' and also: 'There are none so deaf as those that do not want to hear.'
I know nothing about the Spanish publication so will refrain from comment about it but the fact that The Guardian has responded to Nigel Farage's speech with slurs and (now) meaningless labels is no surprise to me at all. The Guardian is, it seems, nothing more than an ideologically captured, activist staffed, mouthpiece for the illiberal, Western World hating, hard-left. What would surprise me though would be someone from The Guardian having the coutage, not to mention the common courtesy, to explain to us all just why it is that the reaction of the British public to Henry Nowak's murder, and the inhuman treatment he received from the police, should not be 'cold hard rage'. Not rage against the Sikh community, which was never what Nigel Farage intended in any case, and which would be wholly unwarranted. But cold hard rage against the decades of deliberate, and systematic, ideological brainwashing which has so corrupted and degraded all of our institutions, but especially the police forces of this country, to the degree that they (the police officers) now react to events by first considering the skin colour, sexuality and ethnicity of complainant and alleged perpetrator before they even bother to remember their supposed duty to show fairness, impartiality and care to, and for, all concerned.
I steeled myself to watch the body-cam footage of the police officers who attended the incident and was shocked beyond belief to witness the harrowing moments as a young man's life slipped away as the police officers concerned dragged him around, handcuffed him and read him his rights as he lay dying at their feet. Not only did they ignore his pleas for help one of the officers even said "I don't think you have mate'" when Henry informed them that he had been stabbed. Cold, hard rage is exactly what I feel; and that rage is directed with a laser focus towards the leadership of the police which has so corrupted, by it's deliberate, malign intentions, the training and ethos of its officers to such an extent that they can now behave so appallingly.
I have, for most of my life, held the police forces of the UK in high esteem thinking they were amongst the best in the world. Now, sadly, we know the truth: they are amongst the best in the world no longer. Shame on all those who hold positions of authority within, and power to decide policy for, the police forces of the UK. They are traitors to justice, to fairness and, most egregiously, to the reputations of those on the front line of policing who have to enact their divisive, hate-fueled doctrines.
"the use of the handcuffs is just impossible to explain." -- meaning within PACE Codes of Practice, which must trump race action plans or whatever when it comes to operational decisions like this. This detention was surely non-compliant re PACE for the reasons the MP cites. Police officers must be deradicalised and we should probably make any officer who has joined in the last 15 years redo their basic training.