UK Protests Erupt Over Handcuffed Dying Student, Police Conduct Under Review
Protests have broken out in the UK following a video of an 18-year-old student being handcuffed while dying, with calls for an investigation into police conduct and accusations of the far-right exploiting the case.
Protests erupted in the UK after a video emerged of a dying student being handcuffed by police. Eighteen-year-old Henry Nowak was heard repeatedly telling officers: "I can't breathe" after he was stabbed by a Sikh man who falsely accused him of racial abuse. The far right have seized on the case, saying white British people are treated as second class citizens by the police. This is despite a UK government report in 2024 which found that black people were 2.2 times as likely to be arrested as wh...