An escalating controversy over British law enforcement saw the Trump administration’s state department attack ‘two-tier policing’ as it sent condolences to the family of murder victim Henry Nowak and “the people of the United Kingdom at this troubling time.”
Let’s just get into this, quickly, before something else horrible happens across the pond and this column goes out of date.
1. The Henry Nowak Case
It all happened in December of last year, and it’s taken seven months for this to finally come to a head with the release of the bodycam video of Henry Nowak, 18, a white British teenager who was stabbed to death by a Sikh wielding a ceremonial knife, bleeding out while in handcuffs, and telling police he couldn’t breathe before passing out.
I am crying. It is hard to write down the circumstances of the death of Henry Nowak without crying. Each time I think about how that young man met his end, I find myself consumed with sadness and a sense of raging disbelief. I admit I’ve become somewhat obsessed with the case because Henry’s murder, and the way Hampshire Police not only failed to help him but actively supported his killer to the point where they handcuffed the 18-year-old student and cruelly mocked him as he drowned in his own blood, is emblematic of how Britain has lost its way.
Does anyone in the GTA believe they can trust the police, I mean anyone who isn’t a government designated victim group enjoying two tiered policing and justice.
🇬🇧 Bodycam footage has been released showing Henry Nowak begging for an ambulance before being handcuffed behind his back.
Nowak: "I've been stabbed"
Officer: "I don't think you have mate"
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Yesterday, Lord Daniel Hannan tweeted: “A man is stabbed to death by someone who accuses him of being a racist — and the first thing the police do on arrival is to handcuff the dying man.” Hannan speaks to a kind of “reverse Stephen Lawrence syndrome”, whereby conservative commentators view police as institutionally biased against white people. In 1999, the Macpherson Report into Lawrence’s murder was published, finding the Metropolitan Police liable for “institutional racism” in its handling of the case.
London is preparing for one of the largest and most complex policing operations in recent years as tens of thousands are expected to attend two major demonstrations taking place on the same day in the capital.
The Metropolitan Police confirmed that live facial recognition (LFR) technology will be deployed at a rally organised by Tommy Robinson, but not at a nearby pro-Palestinian march marking Nakba Day, which commemorates Palestinian displacement and loss during the creation of Israel and the Arab-Israeli war in 1948. The decision has prompted criticism and fuelled claims of “two-tier policing” from political figures and commentators.
This guy appears to have brought a hunting crossbow to a community event in Mississauga.
More than 300,000 people showed up for the 2026 Sikh Spiritual Centre Khalsa Day (Nagar Kirtan) Parade on Sunday, May 3, in Mississauga and Toronto.
Mississauga, Ontario:
Sikh man armed with a hunting crossbow walks in Khalsa Day parade.
They keep testing us to see what they can get away with. This behaviour stops when we say enough is enough and start arresting and deporting them. pic.twitter.com/2UDCF7kkqu— AwareBears (@bears_aware) May 10, 2026
Next the Muslims will demand they be allowed to march with severed heads.
ON Wednesday, a group of mostly white working-class men protested against the ridiculous claim by Surrey Police that they do not have ‘sufficient information’ to describe the gang rapists of a woman outside Epsom Methodist Church on Saturday. The protesters were confronted by police in full riot gear.
Yet two weeks ago, hundreds of mostly non-white youths, organised on social media, swarmed Clapham High Street. They ran riot, jostled pedestrians, shoplifted, let off fireworks, blocked the streets, and assaulted first responders. A few police officers showed up to observe from their cars. Eventually 100 officers were deployed, of whom four were assaulted. They issued a dispersal order, and (later still) arrested three girls.
Such two-tier policing aggravates the tensions in Epsom.
A recent Investigative Journalism Bureau article, which appeared in the National Post, reiterated what we have long known: in Canada, Indigenous women are killed at a much higher rate — tragically, six-times higher — than non-Indigenous women.
The article quoted experts who blame the Canadian justice system for failing Indigenous women. They note that those found guilty of their abuse or murder generally face less serious sentences than perpetrators of crimes committed against non-Indigenous women.
Police are too worried about being labelled racist to tackle dangerous criminals, the inquiry into the Nottingham attacks has heard.
Emma Webber, whose 19-year-old son Barnaby was one of three people killed by Valdo Calocane, a paranoid schizophrenic, said officers were “spending far too much time worrying about discrimination and segregation and doing the wrong thing because somebody’s of a certain colour or certain religion”.
The inquiry previously heard that Calocane was not sectioned after a previous violent attack because he was black.
In December 2021, Everton Downey stabbed his girlfriend Melissa Blimkie 15 times in a stairwell at a shopping mall in Burnaby. She died. Downey was convicted of second-degree murder. In February, the British Columbia Supreme Court sentenced him to life in prison, the minimum sentence set out in the Criminal Code. The Crown sought no chance for parole for at least 15 years. But Associate Chief Justice Heather Holmes decided on 12 years instead, in part because of “mitigating circumstances of his background,” as described in his Impact of Race and Culture Assessment (IRCA). The time to parole was reduced because of Downey’s experience of being Black.
A judge took a Toronto drug dealer’s race into account when he sentenced him for trafficking and possessing a loaded handgun while under a court-ordered firearm prohibition.
The judge was persuaded that Brandon Caleb’s “life experiences flowing from his societal disadvantage and anti-Black racism normalized gun possession in his mind,” said the recent decision. “This somewhat attenuates his moral responsibility.”
There is a judge on the Ontario Superior Court of Justice whose signature move is letting violent men walk free because of racism. One of the architects of race-based sentencing, his name is Faisal Mirza, and he was appointed to the bench by former prime minister Justin Trudeau in 2022.
Mirza’s flourish of race-based acquittals is not a case of a judge gone rogue: indeed, it’s perfectly on-brand. He was writing about the need for more racial considerations in the Canadian justice system in 2001, before he even became a lawyer. Back then, he argued in the Osgoode Hall Law Journal that mandatory minimum sentences for drug and weapons offences would be racist because of the disproportionate impact they’d have on Black people.
Race based justice is anti-white racism.
Is he a Muslim who hates the west? That’s a fair question.
A man who stabbed his girlfriend to death at a shopping centre in British Columbia received a lighter sentence partly because of his race.
Everton Javaun Downey, 35, stabbed his girlfriend, Melissa Blimkie, 15 times in a stairwell at the Metrotown Shopping Centre in Burnaby on Dec. 19, 2021. Downey fled the scene with the murder weapon before later turning himself in to police.
A Toronto crack cocaine dealer caught back in business three times over the course of ten months managed to convince a judge that he deserves some leniency because putting him behind bars would mean hardship for his nine children, but not because he’s addicted to the drugs he was caught peddling.
Policing issues in the United Kingdom’s third-largest urban area wouldn’t normally interest Canadians. But Craig Guildford, chief constable of the West Midlands Police (Birmingham being the biggest city under his watch) is currently in very hot water of a sort that some Canadian police chiefs should be, perhaps, as well. A Nov. 6 Europa League soccer match between storied Birmingham club Aston Villa and storied Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv, which was contested in front of roughly 43,000 empty seats, has become emblematic of Jews in the U.K. essentially being punished for their own persecution. And it happens here too.
