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Protest Over Henry Nowak Murder Turns Violent, Injuring 11 Police Officers and Prompting Two Arrests in Southampton
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In Southampton, the fatal stabbing of 18‑year‑old student Henry Nowak has sparked a violent protest, with police reporting a trail of destruction and eleven officers wounded. Authorities have arrested two suspects and warn that more arrests may follow.
What does he say? I can't breathe. Familiar words. Remember career criminal George Floyd, who died in appalling circumstances in Midwest America a few years ago. Remember the reaction to that?.
What we, as a society, cannot accept is the violent scenes we saw in Southampton last night.
We understand and appreciate as police officers that we are accountable for our actions.
Exploiting this tragedy to create grievance and division would be wrong in any circumstances, but to do it when the family are expressly saying 'please don't' is unforgivable.
This is a time for serious work, not rage. We will ensure anyone found engaging in disorder meets the full force of the law.
No matter the pain we feel, there is no justification for more violence and disorder.
It's a huge tragedy for him and his family and it's awful when these tragedies are weaponised by people who should know better, whether it's politicians or the far right. It really is unwelcome.
We are listening to legitimate concerns about how some of these commitments are worded or phrased, and where needed we can and will make changes, but this should not detract from the intent, which is to improve the quality of policing.
We have with some politicians almost a two-tier citizenship issue here, where they express huge concerns when a person of color commits a crime against a White person, that they don't do when a White person commits a crime against a person of color. These are all British citizens, they just happen to be a different skin color.
I don't accept the assertion that's been made by far-right, anti-immigrant politicians.
sources
- 1.CNN
- 2.Le Monde
- 3.The Times of India
- 4.The Guardian
- 5.The New York Times
- 6.NPR
- 7.Agence France-Presse
- 8.BBC News
- 9.PA news agency
perspectives
countries
organizations
- 1.Labour Party
- 2.Sikhs
- 3.University of Southampton
- 4.Hampshire Police
- 5.Reform UK
- 6.Independent Office for Police Conduct
- 7.Metropolitan Police
- 8.National Black Police Association
- 9.National Police Chiefs' Council
- 10.Southampton Police
persons
- 1.Henry Nowak
- 2.Vickrum Digwa
- 3.Tommy Robinson
- 4.George Floyd
- 5.Keir Starmer
- 6.Nigel Farage
- 7.Alexis Boon
- 8.Elon Musk
- 9.Sarah Jones
- 10.Andy Burnham
- 11.Andy George
- 12.Dal Babu