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I can't breathe

Can anyone tell me where and when the white lives matter march is after the young lad in Southampton was arrested and handcuffed by police whilst dying from 5 stab wounds ? His last words were ' I can't breathe'.....sound familiar?Will our footballers and Starmer etc be taking the knee for this poor lad? Will they heck as like.2 tier policing, yep its here.

Andy Pike ● 1d17 Comments

It was extremely moving watching Henry Novak’s family on the news.  What a waste of a young man’s life.

Martine Guy ● 2h

There are too many unanswered questions in this case.  I think in essence Andy is right it comes down to two tier policing afraid of getting this racially wrong.  Our emergency services are brilliant running towards danger but a huge dose of common sense eg l can’t breathe and “l have been stabbed” should have been listened to.My heart goes out to his dignified family.

Robert Wheeler ● 3h

"I cannot understand why the police arrested and handcuffed Henry Nowak".You will remember that several innocent people have been tried and executed in the UK. Their convictions were quashed 50 years after their execution.Guilty people can often lie to the police. Sometimes the police will get it wrong. This time they believed a murderous liar, and never noticed the 5 wounds on the dying victim, until after handcuffing him.

David Ainsworth ● 4h

Digwa was sentenced today for murder and will serve at least 21 years in prison.  Referendum on the restoration of capital punishment needed asap.

Sue Hammond ● 4h

Hello Andy,This case is so blood curdling, unbelievable and shocking!I cannot understand why the police arrested and handcuffed Henry Nowak, who had obviously been stabbed while the so-called "abused victim", Vickrum Digwa was very well, in one piece and not an injury to be seen.  Even if Vickrum Digwa was born in the UK, I would support him being deported back the Punjab (whether Indian or Pakistani) with all his family.

Ivonne Holliday ● 8h

Ms Stevens'The Police need a better form of training'.They do indeed.But in crime fighting rather than the DEI guidance that seems to restrict their powers of 'stop and search' and tackling life threatening knife crime on suspicion.And also the law that allows a Sikh to carry a large knife 'for religious observance' on the streets of London should be repealed.Primitive cultural attitudes of an alien culture.Furthermore, the perpetrators of the majority of incidences of knife crime and attacks on women and girls should be deported back to where they came from, be it Africa, the Caribbean or wherever.Doubtless the Guardian's Mr Ainsworth would of course see that as racism.

John Hawkes ● 11h

Mr Ainsworth'Yet you also say "Not talking about the American".'Yet more Guardian Opinion 'whataboutary' from an ex-columnist.

John Hawkes ● 11h

Mr Brigo'George Floyd was murdered by the US police was he not?'Well spotted Mr Brigo !So why all the 'Black lives matter' protests and demos and knee bending in the UK ?

John Hawkes ● 11h

The Police need more medical training if they didn't realize the young man they handcuffed was in a dreadful state, they were obviously being too rough to even notice. The whole Country is in a state when is something going to be done about it.  Non stop stabbings, non stop rapes. I was reading on Facebook about a lady in Torquay being followed while sitting in her car and she rang a friend who chased them away. The Police need a better form of training.

Barbara Stevens ● 13h

Jeez. You didn't mention that we were playing liar's dice either.

David Ainsworth ● 23h

How good you are playing 'you say'I didnt mention the American so I can say, i didnt say

Andy Pike ● 23h

You say "His last words were ' I can't breathe'.....sound familiar?"You say "Will our footballers and Starmer etc be taking the knee"Yet you also say "Not talking about the American".

David Ainsworth ● 23h

The explanation for the dreadful conduct of the police is that failing to act on an accusation of racism by a person of colour against a white person would be interpreted as racism, which would effectively end their career in the force. They were were more concerned to save 5heir careers than offer help to a seriously injured, in fact dying, man.

Steven Rose ● 1d

Heartbreaking.💔I haven’t been able to get this case out of my mind.  The thought of that poor young lad laying on the ground terrified, handcuffed and literally bleeding to death, and being treated as a criminal is so wrong on all levels.  The police were so quick to believe the perpetrator, Sikh Vicktum Digwa, when he said the boy had racially abused and attacked him knocking his turban off, and the officers were more concerned about him than the poor lad lying in a pool of his own blood.You are right Andy, White Lives Do Matter but not apparently that much in this country.  If this scenario had been reversed and a man of colour had been stabbed to death by a white person you can be sure there would be riots on the streets.Starmer’s silence is deafening but at least someone cares:Elon Musk has offered to fund a private lawsuit prosecution against the officers concerned.  Elon Musk renews attacks on UK government over killing of student:https://www.newsnationnow.com/world/elon-musk-attacks-uk-death-british-student/

Sue Hammond ● 1d

Not talking about the American so forget your whataboutery.Talking about an 18 year old English boy stabbed 5 times and arrested as a racist as the life blood ran out of him.All because his murderer was a man of colour who claimed he had been  verbally abused. When in reality he had, for no reason, stabbed this lad.The Police believed this man and  arrested the boy as he died oblivious to his wounds but conditioned to believing the white boy must be a racist. Those last minutes of that boys life were in police custody as a suspected crimimal.Where are all the luvvies and politicians condemning this abuse of police powers.

Andy Pike ● 1d

George Floyd was murdered by the US police was he not?

Michael Brigo ● 1d

We have no Government.  Starmer can’t bring himself to say anything about this case because of the obvious racial bias.5 stab wounds and nobody checked until this poor lad went unconscious.  How safe do people feel, how safe are our children?

Robert Wheeler ● 1d