The body camera footage of one of the police officers involved in the case of Henry Nowak, the 18-year-old British youth who was stabbed to death in Southampton by Vickrum Digwa, the Indian who tried to falsely present himself as a victim of a "racist attack", was revealed in recent hours.
The footage, which is highly distressing, starkly exposes the actions of the incompetent police officers who arrived at the scene. While Nowak was bleeding out in public, the police did not act as if they were facing a medical emergency, but rather accepted the aggressor's version as valid and ignored his injuries.
The video shows that, while Henry was dying, an officer calmly asked if anyone else had been injured. Digwa responded that the young man had taken his turban and that he only had a small bruise. That accusation, which was later discredited in the judicial process, ended up conditioning the police response: to ensure that the murderer did not feel "discriminated against" rather than attending to the victim.
Instead of properly assisting the young man, the officers decided to move him roughly, grabbing him by the hands and dragging him, instead of providing a stretcher or an appropriate maneuver for someone seriously injured. At that moment, one of the officers even told him: “I don’t think you were stabbed, buddy,” despite Nowak warning that he was injured and could not breathe.
The scene becomes even more serious when the officers proceed to handcuff him. Henry continued to alert them about his injuries and his difficulty breathing, but the police proceeded with the arrest as if he were the aggressor and not the victim of a deadly attack.
