U.K. police are coming under additional scrutiny after employing aggressive tactics against Britons protesting the death of Henry Nowak.
The protests in the suburbs of Southampton were the latest expression of outrage in the days since the release of bodycam footage showing the police response to the stabbing that left Nowak dead.
In the footage of the 2025 attack,Nowakis seen telling officers, “I can’t breathe!” as they handcuffed him following a stabbing by a man named Vickrum Digwa.
Digwa, a Sikh, told police that he had been thetarget of a racist attack by Nowak. Evidence later showed this to be a lie.
In addition, as theBBCnoted, police refused to believe he had been stabbed.
“I don’t think you have, mate,” an officer told him on the bodycam video.
Nowak would later die, and Digwa was sentenced to life, although that means only a minimum 21-year sentence, given the U.K.’s laws.
In the Southampton protest, theBBCdescribed “a large, volatile and angry group of protesters and local youths” who came after “an earlier peaceful protest at Southampton police station” near where Nowak died.
Footage shows things getting ugly:
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