Vice President JD Vance linked the killing of British teenager Henry Nowak to European migration policy and policing failures, drawing condemnation from the UK prime minister’s office.
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Vice President JD Vance sharply criticized European leaders after the murder of British teenager Henry Nowak, saying the 18-year-old’s death reflected a broader failure by elites who embraced mass migration, “self-hatred” and policing practices that abandoned their own citizens.
Vance commented Friday after 23-year-old Vickrum Digwa, a Sikh man, was convicted earlier this week in Nowak’s December 2025 killing. Body camera footage showed officers handcuffing Nowak as he bled after being stabbed by Digwa, who falsely claimed the teenager had committed a racist act.
“Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit,” Vance wrote in a post on X.
The vice president said Nowak should still be alive and blamed the circumstances surrounding his death on European leaders’ immigration and cultural policies.
“His murder is as tragic as it is enraging,” Vance wrote. “He should still be alive today, and he would be if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it.”
Vance added that Nowak was not an isolated victim.
“Henry was far from the first to so needlessly lose his life, and I fear he won’t be the last,” he wrote.
The vice president said “righteous anger” was an appropriate response to the case and tied the Trump administration’s immigration agenda to a broader defense of national sovereignty, border security and Western civilization.
“It is because we love the West that we want to preserve it,” Vance wrote. “We love our civilization. We love our country. We love our children. And nobody—nobody—should ever die the way that Henry Nowak died. May God comfort those who loved him, and may God rest his soul.”
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Vance’s remarks followed another post on X about the case and came one day after the U.S. State Department addressed Nowak’s death in a separate post. The State Department condemned what it described as “ideological conditioning and two-tiered policing” and called them “glaring symptoms of civilizational decline.”
The case has drawn public outrage because police initially treated the dying teenager as a suspect after Digwa falsely accused him of racism. Nowak was handcuffed while suffering from a fatal stab wound, intensifying criticism of how officers responded at the scene.
The UK prime minister’s office condemned Vance’s comments Friday and accused him of trying to inflame tensions while Nowak’s family grieves.
“In recent days we have seen people trying to interfere in our democracy and seeking to stir up division on our streets,” a spokesman for the prime minister said, according to the UK Express. “The Nowak family are grieving after Henry’s horrific murder. They have said they do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension. We should be respecting their wishes.”
“Our politics should bring people together even in the most terrible of circumstances,” the spokesman added. “That is who we are as a country.”
Vance’s comments placed the Nowak case at the center of a wider transatlantic dispute over migration, national identity and law enforcement. Supporters of the vice president said his remarks reflected anger over a fatal case in which a false racism accusation influenced the police response. Critics in the UK said the tragedy should not be used to deepen political divisions.
The debate comes as the Trump administration continues to emphasize strong borders and national sovereignty as central themes of its immigration policy, while European governments face growing public pressure over migration, crime and policing controversies.
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