Nigel Farage said the handling of 18-year-old Henry Nowak after he was fatally stabbed shows Britain needs immediate changes to policing, sentencing review procedures and DEI-driven institutional culture.
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Nigel Farage called Tuesday for an immediate overhaul of police culture after newly released body-worn camera footage showed Hampshire officers handcuffing 18-year-old Henry Nowak as he lay dying from a stabbing.
The Reform UK leader said the case should force Britain to confront whether policing and public institutions are applying equal treatment under the law. His comments followed the release of footage showing officers responding to the scene after Nowak was stabbed by a Sikh man using a religious shastar ceremonial knife.
Farage said the video showed officers giving weight to the attacker’s claim of racial abuse while failing to properly respond to Nowak’s statement that he had been stabbed. He argued that the case reflected a broader “two-tier” culture in Britain.
“What does he say, ‘I can’t breathe’. Remember, career criminal George Floyd who died in appalling circumstances in Midwest America a few years ago. Remember the reaction to that and the way the police behaved? Within a few days Keir Starmer was taking the knee, Black Lives Matter exploded all over the country. Churchill’s statue was defaced, the Cenotaph was vandalised. And yet what has the public reaction been from our leaders and politicians, and indeed, to be frank, much of the media to this? Silence. Absolute silence. Proof, if ever there was any, that we’re living in a two-tier culture in this country where the rights and privileges of white people matter less than those of ethnic minorities,” Farage said.
Farage addressed the case in a video statement, saying Britons should take “a long, hard look at ourselves as a country and what we’ve become.”
He said the response of officers at the scene could not be separated from broader government and institutional policies, including hate speech laws, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs and what he described as positive discrimination favoring ethnic minorities.
Farage condemned the officers’ conduct but said the larger problem was the culture and training under which police now operate.
“Much as we condemn the two police officers involved here, think of this, the biggest fear a police officer now has going about his or her duty on the street is the fear of being reported for having acted in a way that was racially biased. That fear now greater than dealing with a dying man lying on the ground,” Farage said.
Farage praised Nowak’s family for their dignity and urged the public to direct anger over the case toward demands for institutional reform.
“I suggest the rest of us respond to this with pure, cold, rage. This is wrong. All the values and standards of living in a free country where everybody is judged equally before the law have been trashed and thrown away,” Farage said.
He said the police investigation into the handling of the case must produce answers quickly and said he would ask the attorney general to review the sentence imposed on Nowak’s killer.
“And there are one or two things that need to happen very quickly: the first is that the [police investigation into itself] needs to get to the bottom of this and produce a report very, very quickly. Secondly, even through to sentencing, the sentence given was actually lower than the recommended minimum for a sustained, aggressive, murderous assault. And I’ll be writing today to the Attorney General asking him to review the sentence,” Farage said.
Farage framed the case as a warning that public trust in police and government institutions could deteriorate further unless leaders move quickly to end policies he said encourage unequal treatment.
“But the most important thing that has to change if our society is not to be ripped apart, where communities start to distrust each other and deeply distrust the police and all the other institutions of this country, is we need a change in culture. Enough of anti-white prejudice. A promotion of the idea that white lives matter just as much as black lives. An end to DEI and positive discrimination, but a country that treats everybody equally and fairly before the law,” Farage said.
“This is serious, this is urgent. I fear for where our society should be in a few short year if we don’t grip this and do it very, very quickly,” he added.
Farage said the problem begins at the top of government and policing, using the phrase “the fish rots from the head down.” He said ministers and senior police officials must begin reforms “today” if they want to restore public confidence.
After Farage said he planned to write to the attorney general, the government indicated it would consider reviewing the sentence. The Guardian reported that officials had received “multiple requests” to examine the sentence and have 28 days to decide whether to refer the case to the Court of Appeal.
Farage said the central issue is whether Britain will continue with policing and public policies shaped by DEI and racial sensitivity concerns or return to a standard in which all citizens are treated equally before the law.
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