UK fury over body cam footage of dying Henry Nowak being arrested (watchdog fashions)

[Yazata]

The cartoon below has reportedly been banned from X in the EU as "illegal or harmful speech".

The text accompanying the cartoon reads, "Let's face the facts: either Sikhs should not be allowed to carry kirpans — the very blades that killed Henry Nowak — or the public should be able to carry knives, since the current law is clearly not working. Justice must be applied equally to all."

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[Syne]

The UK is starting to wall themselves in, information-wise, reminiscent of China, North Korea, etc.. It started with such onerous laws that Imgur refused to accommodate them. Now they are imposing on X. Really seems like they want to control what their people can see and hear online. I wonder which will win out... the people and their freedom or the elite and their power.

[stryder]

The UK is starting to wall themselves in, information-wise, reminiscent of China, North Korea, etc.. It started with such onerous laws that Imgur refused to accommodate them. Now they are imposing on X. Really seems like they want to control what their people can see and hear online. I wonder which will win out... the people and their freedom or the elite and their power.

I'm pretty sure it's more down to shutting down the Psychopaths from other countries that dictate noise at our country with the intent to cause unrest.

The US might be use to the whole concept of saying some crap and getting shot for it when someone takes offence, but the rest of the world doesn't necessarily have to live that way.

[C C]

Every era has had things that got censored or rebuked -- like profanity, sex, graphic violence, impiety against God and community, and communist propaganda back in the traditionalist days. Today it's identity politics that is sacred and must not be tread upon. It seems oppressive in its own right because we supposedly did enjoy a period in-between where we were significantly free from censorship and speech control in general. But the actual norm is residing in such -- one evolving variety or another; it eventually returns. And just like Bohemian rebels and nonconformists from 1900 to the 1970s, there's a contrarian impulse to strike back and ridicule and defile the reigning forms of veneration.

[Syne]

The UK is starting to wall themselves in, information-wise, reminiscent of China, North Korea, etc.. It started with such onerous laws that Imgur refused to accommodate them. Now they are imposing on X. Really seems like they want to control what their people can see and hear online. I wonder which will win out... the people and their freedom or the elite and their power.

I'm pretty sure it's more down to shutting down the Psychopaths from other countries that dictate noise at our country with the intent to cause unrest.

I'm sure that's the same justification in China, North Korea, etc..

[C C]

Cops ‘tried to portray Henry Nowak as aggressor in official statement’ three days after his murder
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/39332497/c...or-murder/

EXCERPT: The Sunday Times now reveal the force wanted to describe the 18-year-old in a way that suggested he had started the confrontation, but changed the wording after outrage from his grieving family. [...] Henry’s relatives, devastated by his death, became concerned that a false narrative was being pushed about their son.

It is understood Hampshire Police later told the family about a further update they planned to publish, which would have included the Nowaks’ tribute but again implied Henry had been the initial aggressor. Officers eventually dropped that section and when the statement was published, it referred only to an “altercation”.

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Failure to remove Sikh dagger from Digwa's neck
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/pol...r-AA250wOD

EXCERPT: It also came to light last night that the force, already under fire for its diversity schemes, failed to take a knife from Digwa after he was arrested and did not handcuff him when he was arrested. Even after the murderer was taken to a police station, his Sikh dagger was hanging around his neck.

The blade was only removed after a police search before he was moved into a cell, The Sun revealed. A source said: "Either the arresting officers knew he had the kirpan on and let him keep it on after his arrest, or they missed it and it was only picked up when he was searched at the police station.

"Either way, it is a massive blunder and could have been dangerous."
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The second account above is actually referring to the smaller knife. Digwa's mother grabbed the murder weapon and hid it.

Police treated stab victim as a racist while he lay dying (excerpt): Digwa’s mother, Kiran Kaur, and father, Moga Singh Digwa, also made their way to the scene before police arrived.

Ms Kaur picked up the ceremonial knife – called a shastar – used by her son in the attack and ran back to the family home where she stashed it, the court heard. She was found guilty of assisting an offender.

Digwa was also found to have a small kirpan around his neck. In the UK, Sikhs are legally permitted to carry a kirpan in public, as it is protected by religious exemption laws. During the trial, the court heard that Digwa was “skilled” with blades and had been “training with weapons since he was 12”.

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Henry Nowak murder: Mother of killer Vickrum Digwa sentenced to three years in prison for hiding knife
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/cr...16900.html

INTRO: The mother of Henry Nowak’s killer Vickrum Digwa has been sentenced to three years in prison for removing a knife from the scene of the murder. Kiran Kaur, 53, was earlier found guilty of assisting an offender. She was sentenced on Friday at the Southampton Crown Court.

Digwa, 23, stabbed Mr Nowak, a finance student, to death with a Sikh ceremonial knife on a Southampton street on 3 December 2025. Kaur then took the knife back to the family home. Sentencing Kaur, Judge William Mousley KC said: “A responsible parent would have challenged their son over their actions and encourage them to do the right thing.

“Instead, you took the knife home and put it with a larger collection of ceremonial and other weapons in your son’s bedroom. That would have helped to conceal what it had been used for.”

During Digwa’s murder trial, it emerged that he had lied to police about the events leading up to the stabbing, falsely claiming that Mr Nowak had racially abused him.

Anger erupted after a police body-worn video was released showing Mr Nowak, 18, being placed in handcuffs moments before he became unconscious and subsequently died. Two Hampshire police officers involved in the arrest are now under investigation for potential gross misconduct.

Digwa was sentenced in June to life in prison, with a minimum term of 21 years, for Mr Nowak’s murder...