US Vice President JD Vance is in cost of Great Britain within the case of a white scholar stabbed to dying by a Sikh – triggering criticism from the British authorities. “Henry Nowak died the best way a civilization dies: deserted, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he didn’t commit,” Vance announced on Friday on the online service X. “His homicide is as tragic as it’s outrageous.”
The British Prime Minister’s Workplace Keir Starmer then condemned “individuals who attempt to intrude in our democracy.” It additionally famous that the scholar’s household had mentioned they didn’t need his homicide for use to “incite additional division, hatred or stress.”
The coed was killed by a 23-year-old in Southampton, southern England, last December been. The perpetrator, a member of the Sikh spiritual group, was sentenced to life in jail on Monday. Because of the trial, a video grew to become public that reveals how cops handcuffed the significantly injured 18-year-old scholar – as a substitute of serving to him. A short while later he died mendacity on the bottom after shouting “I am unable to breathe” a number of instances.
The perpetrator claimed to the police on the scene that he was the sufferer and that he had been racially insulted as a member of the Sikh spiritual group. The truth that the officers believed the perpetrator referred to as out caused widespread outrage in the United Kingdomparticularly amongst right-wing politicians. They accused the police of discriminating towards white individuals.