This story is everywhere right now for obvious reasons, and there are a thousand takes already – some good, some instant and sloppy. My essays take a lot of time, so I greatly appreciate your likes and restacks. Comments are open for a bit, and I look forward to hearing your views; I'll reply in the coming days. And if you're new here, do subscribe. Thanks for reading!
It's a good analogy. Well written. I like Matt Goodwin's take as well.
When the truckers marched nonviolently on Ottawa against Covid mandates imposed by Trudeau, I wrote an opinion piece comparing them to the civil rights marchers in Birmingham, Alabama -- especially the negative reaction they got at the hands of locals. The truckers and supporters who were sick of Canada being run like a plantation and their lives and livelihoods disregarded by unnecessary mandates were like blacks in the 1960s responding to racism. Needless to say, the Ottawa paper I sent it to didn't print it. Instead, the organizers were put on trial (a show trial as it turned out). The media helped the Ottawa elites to demonize and scapegoat the protestors and working class.
The UK is actually ahead of Canada when it comes to protesting mass immigration. Here it's still a taboo subject, but there at least the Reform party has a chance to win, and it's on the table, politically. It's talked about at least. Is there more mass immigration in the UK? No, there's actually more in Canada, but it's a bigger country, so easier to hide. And white people here are not indigenous to Canada, but in the UK they are, and there is a much longer tradition of patriotism in the UK. Canadians are naive. The media in Canada promotes TDS and helps the government sell out to China. Only a few bother to notice. Trudeau is gone, but his party is still in power. I hope Reform wins and takes back the UK. It's long overdue.
Thanks, TfY. Canada has been grimly fascinating to watch these last years, especially since Covid. Watching the media help elites demonise the very people they're meant to serve was genuinely shocking, though the same could be said of the UK. I don't think Reform is the answer (their misquoting of Badenoch yesterday was very grubby), but they give voice to many who feel utterly demoralised, and for good reason.
She is a political chameleon. A few years back she celebrated the now failed pro-immigration policies like the rest of her party. Now the wind has changed she promotes the new opportunity of controlling it.
Yes, she speaks well, she is a member of The Conservative Party and she is a politician. They are masters of deception. All they lack is credibility due to a 14 year track record of failure and doublespeak.
I'll have to defer to your opinion, I certainly don't know her well, and not her history at all. It's plain the Conservatives flailed and failed badly, disastrously, post Brexit. Cameron should have had a plan for failure. It's like he was saying vote Remain or I'll leave, and look at the alternatives ... like a game of chicken.
Thanks Frederick, very powerfully expressed. There’s not much more to add apart from to wonder how much more of the sneering contempt the ordinary, decent people of this country will take. Enough of the lying, the gaslighting, the whataboutery, the deflection, the instructions not to be angry. We can all see what’s been happening for the past few decades. And that is that the narcissistic arrogance of the people in power has created chaos out of order. All because they are convinced that they know what’s best for us and they will impose it whether we like it or not.
May that poor boy rest in peace and his heartbroken family eventually find some comfort.
This is what happens when corporate HR/marketing types are allowed to have a say in an organisation's core functions, performance evaluation, and pay incentives. People who know nothing about the actual work but who invariably shoehorn the latest virtue signal fad into tasks. The poor workers learn to adapt, on pain of losing promotion, raise, and bonuses. The Nowak tragedy is just corporate hell multiplied millions of times in terms of impact.
This is very true. I used to work in this environment, and the incentives are all geared toward this end. Those who rise to the top and then set or enforce the rules are so often the sociopathic types that these systems depend on.
HR is there to help with hiring (find qualified candidates to interview) and firing (make sure grounds are sufficient), in managing performance reviews, and helping ensure a companies compensation packages are appropriate. In each step, they also ensure due process is followed.
All sound like valuable functions that it helps to have an expert/specialist on board facilitate and manage, but taken as a whole, and in conjunction with anti-discrimination laws (originally a good thing), and an education in gender and ethnic studies ... you now have the perfect role for a right-think busy body to inject themselves and their processes and objectives into, and warp, every facet of a company's operations, and become the dominant force in establishing the company "culture" (rather than the leaders and creators and workers who actually live it).
Equity not equality, outcomes not color blindness, different standards for different folks - this is where we crossed the line from fairness to insanity. Academia and education seem to be completely captured. As long as they are, we are crippled, possibly doomed to lead ourselves to our demise at our own hands. What can we do to reform these critical institutions?
For a totalitarian system to work it must impose a complete inversion of reality, the better to keep the population unbalanced, and therefore more easily controlled. This is plainly happening across the West, but the Anglosphere is where it seems to be most concentrated. The society that produced Orwell seems poised to fulfill his most alarming predictions.
You're writing excellent, cogent, relevant stuff. Keep it up. Things are starting to pop, finally. maybe there's time to right this sinking ship after all.
That's a fair observation, and perhaps I was being too charitable. I'm still inclined to think the officers arrived sceptical, having taken the brother's call as fact – because they'd been conditioned to do so. None of which is to excuse what happened afterwards. My point is that the training is almost a form of engineered sociopathy.
Not sure if it's just an artifact of the quality of body cam footage at night and dark clothing, but there was not much blood visible which would perhaps lead the officers to believe it was more a problem of drunkenness and exaggeration ... but still, clearly a man in distress and not presenting a threat. The fact his own words were assumed to be false from the outset is the most damning symptom that reveals the problem (followed by the callow treatment he received).
I did say, his own words were assumed to be false from the outset. The lack of obvious visual evidence just supported a bias that shouldn't have been present.
They despised Henry Nowak from the moment they got the call from the brother.
They treated him with the utmost indifference and cruelty. You can hear it in their voices. You can see it when they’re cuffing him and dragging him around.
There’s nothing there to indicate any kind of humanity. I think that’s a pretty good indicator.
Not one of them was human enough to say to themselves ‘this is wrong’ and act independently. I mean, seriously, WTF is WRONG with these people?
This is what Corbynism does to a formally great nation. Divide, conquer, socialism, victimhood, and hate of certain people in the name of social justice.
Starmer is not Starmer, he is Corbyn wearing a Starmer body costume. The old communist geezer who never left the 70s and believed that the winter of discontent was how Britain should always behave won in the end. Welcome to parliamentary democracy lads!
I go even further, back to Blair. Even during Thatchers time, there was a long, traceable line of "Englishness" or "Britishness". From Blair onwards, that traceable line was - in some cases obviously deliberately - targetted for destruction.
"A young man is bleeding in front of you, lying on the ground, all but motionless, saying with what little life he has left that he can’t breathe. It’s an unambiguous distress signal; a dog would understand it. Consider what it takes, then, to respond first with mockery, then with handcuffs."
It's hard to distinguish these bastards from any run of the mill SS guard a couple of generations earlier.
Thanks Danny, I knew the story but was still too upset to break it down in manageable chunks. You helped. But boy, are we screwed in the West. Short of an all out uprising against the state, what can be done to reverse this?
Thanks – yes, I know what you mean. It feels like we can't vote our way out of this, but the truth is, the debased state we have today was built slowly, through institutions, and it will come apart the same way eventually. I'm not sure anything good ever comes of revolution (or more accurately, counter-revolution), and I see a lot of awful things ahead. Frederick.
Over the past few years I've gone back and watched old movies and t.v. shows because I find the new stuff pointless and infantile. Especially being beaten over the head with DEI. I was especially interested in pieces that were described as being "racist" or in some other way "politically incorrect". And something started to hit me between the eyes. Not just that they weren't actually racist. It was WHO was being attacked.
Just one example is the comedy set not just in the dying days of WWII but the dying days of the Raj: "It ain't half hot Mum". We've been told for years that the humour is racist, homophobic and God knows what else. But that conclusion is only possible if you view it through a woke lens, and you view the Indian characters as victims.
In every episode it's the natives and the ordinary soldiers who actually come out on top. Oh they might have to put up with the stupidity of the officer class but they usually end up winning the day. And how do they win the day? By using the system against itself.
The wisest man of all is the punkah wallah. He has the worst job, doesn't even speak English and is treated badly by the other Indians because of his religion and caste. But he always has the last word. Nobody actually hates the impossibly camp "Gloria" because he's a homosexual. And because there simply isn't a woman around, Gunner Beaumont gets away with all sorts because when they need a girl, well he'll do. There's all the stereotypes: the Taffy, the Jock, the over-educated idiot, the under-educated idiot, but they are all "every man". They understand the Indians in a way the officers can't and never will.
What the modern left can't get their heads around is that the officers are just moving deck chairs on the Titanic. They apply the rules to the letter of the law. Nobody else is taking any notice. It's R.S.M. Williams who actually runs things and he's not even English. He's Welsh. But the good idea that saves the day always comes from one of the troops or one of the Indians, but it has to look like they're following orders.
The comedy comes from the juxtapositions of absurdity. Lofty and Gloria play acting as Fred and Ginger, up the jungle on the Indian/Burmese border as they're fighting to save Western civilisation, while the great British Empire is dying all around them. The Bearer who above all wants to be more English than the colonel. THAT is what the progressive authoritarians can't cope with. It's the little guy being more concerned about surviving - physically, mentally and metaphorically - than fitting in with an overall plan worked out by an out of touch member of the elite sitting under a fan back in an office in Calcutta. Or worse still all the way back in Whitehall.
And the quinine in the tonic water is actually useful if you're trying to avoid malaria. In Surrey it's a bloody affectation.
I’m afraid I have to take issue with your analysis. The cultural training aspect is important but I think there may a more fundamental issue that is not fully addressed in your article - the issue of expectation bias that we are all susceptible to.
In this tragic case, Digwa’s brother called the police to report a racial abuse incident. The police who attended were therefore already primed to expect a racial abuse incident. Expectation bias would have made it very difficult for them to arrive at the scene ready to investigate with an open mind.
As a former anaesthetist I am well aware of the perils of expectation bias. When an operating room crisis occurs, such as the patient’s oxygen levels plummeting, an anaesthetist can call for help from another anaesthetist. If that person is told that the problem is asthma ( the patient is known to suffer from chronic asthma) the second anaesthetist may try different drugs to resolve the “asthma”. However the problem is not asthma- the problem is that the patient’s breathing tube has been inserted too far and is only ventilating one lung. In order to fix such a problem an anaesthetist should always go back to basics, and step by step, figure out what the underlying problem is. That is what we are trained to do in a crisis. And that training is the antidote to expectation bias.
Without specific training about cognitive bias and how to manage it, I believe it would have been psychologically difficult for those police to counter the expectation bias that the brother’s phone call created.
You make a very interesting point. The brother's phone call undoubtedly had an effect and I agree he is an accessory to murder. We might wonder, though, what would have happened if the two brothers were white, one making a similar call about anti-white racism, the other claiming at the scene that the man on the ground had torn his St George's flag. Or what if the man on the ground had been wearing a turban or was black? Would expectation bias have influenced the police in the same way?
That's my point about the training. Expectations are themselves filtered through the kind of conditioning discussed in the piece. I'm not an expert and not all the facts are in, but it seems fair to question how such training shapes the expectations in the first place.
Yes I suspect both types of bias would have been present - conditioning bias, based on police culture and training, as you suggest, but also the expectation bias in relation to the brother’s phone call.
I’m at a bit of a loss as to why they phoned the police at all and didn’t just make a run for it. Given that they didn’t seem to want to help the victim in any way, the phone call could only have put them in jeopardy.
From what I've read, there were several unanswered 999 calls, Henry was heard jumping over the fence trying to escape, he landed on someones car, there were two smartphones in play (Digwa's and Henry's), and the authorities still thought they could *prove* Henry was the aggressor in a trial? Did the Jury, at least, get to hear/see what was on both phones? This pretense of 'Gracious, no we can't show you, it's too disturbing, you might get upset...' is demeaning and self-serving.
We might have to wait a while to find out whether this is one of those seminal moments, where people wake (woke ) up to the neo-marxist, post modernist ideas that have ideologicaly caputred our public instituions
I have seen it first hand and noticed it beginning to permeate policy in about 2018/19.
In fairness to the Police, they were quite late to the party. The NHS was first, followed by Local Government
I once asked of an EDI lead at a senior leadership meeting, what outcomes his team were trying to equalise through EDI. He couldn't answer the question - instead saying the EDI was just a lens through which to look at things. Needless to say they never got past the abstract ideas and didn't achieve anything
The irony was that they would oftern go on about the key stage results of, and systemic racism against black kids, when the data was telling them that it was poor white kids that performed worse
This story is everywhere right now for obvious reasons, and there are a thousand takes already – some good, some instant and sloppy. My essays take a lot of time, so I greatly appreciate your likes and restacks. Comments are open for a bit, and I look forward to hearing your views; I'll reply in the coming days. And if you're new here, do subscribe. Thanks for reading!
It's a good analogy. Well written. I like Matt Goodwin's take as well.
When the truckers marched nonviolently on Ottawa against Covid mandates imposed by Trudeau, I wrote an opinion piece comparing them to the civil rights marchers in Birmingham, Alabama -- especially the negative reaction they got at the hands of locals. The truckers and supporters who were sick of Canada being run like a plantation and their lives and livelihoods disregarded by unnecessary mandates were like blacks in the 1960s responding to racism. Needless to say, the Ottawa paper I sent it to didn't print it. Instead, the organizers were put on trial (a show trial as it turned out). The media helped the Ottawa elites to demonize and scapegoat the protestors and working class.
The UK is actually ahead of Canada when it comes to protesting mass immigration. Here it's still a taboo subject, but there at least the Reform party has a chance to win, and it's on the table, politically. It's talked about at least. Is there more mass immigration in the UK? No, there's actually more in Canada, but it's a bigger country, so easier to hide. And white people here are not indigenous to Canada, but in the UK they are, and there is a much longer tradition of patriotism in the UK. Canadians are naive. The media in Canada promotes TDS and helps the government sell out to China. Only a few bother to notice. Trudeau is gone, but his party is still in power. I hope Reform wins and takes back the UK. It's long overdue.
Thanks, TfY. Canada has been grimly fascinating to watch these last years, especially since Covid. Watching the media help elites demonise the very people they're meant to serve was genuinely shocking, though the same could be said of the UK. I don't think Reform is the answer (their misquoting of Badenoch yesterday was very grubby), but they give voice to many who feel utterly demoralised, and for good reason.
The limited exposure I have to Badenoch, she speaks well on this subject. Looks like one of the best political leaders in the Anglosphere.
She is a political chameleon. A few years back she celebrated the now failed pro-immigration policies like the rest of her party. Now the wind has changed she promotes the new opportunity of controlling it.
Yes, she speaks well, she is a member of The Conservative Party and she is a politician. They are masters of deception. All they lack is credibility due to a 14 year track record of failure and doublespeak.
I'll have to defer to your opinion, I certainly don't know her well, and not her history at all. It's plain the Conservatives flailed and failed badly, disastrously, post Brexit. Cameron should have had a plan for failure. It's like he was saying vote Remain or I'll leave, and look at the alternatives ... like a game of chicken.
Thanks Frederick, very powerfully expressed. There’s not much more to add apart from to wonder how much more of the sneering contempt the ordinary, decent people of this country will take. Enough of the lying, the gaslighting, the whataboutery, the deflection, the instructions not to be angry. We can all see what’s been happening for the past few decades. And that is that the narcissistic arrogance of the people in power has created chaos out of order. All because they are convinced that they know what’s best for us and they will impose it whether we like it or not.
May that poor boy rest in peace and his heartbroken family eventually find some comfort.
They "created chaos out of order" – precisely. It didn't have to be like this. Thanks, TT.
This is what happens when corporate HR/marketing types are allowed to have a say in an organisation's core functions, performance evaluation, and pay incentives. People who know nothing about the actual work but who invariably shoehorn the latest virtue signal fad into tasks. The poor workers learn to adapt, on pain of losing promotion, raise, and bonuses. The Nowak tragedy is just corporate hell multiplied millions of times in terms of impact.
This is very true. I used to work in this environment, and the incentives are all geared toward this end. Those who rise to the top and then set or enforce the rules are so often the sociopathic types that these systems depend on.
HR is there to help with hiring (find qualified candidates to interview) and firing (make sure grounds are sufficient), in managing performance reviews, and helping ensure a companies compensation packages are appropriate. In each step, they also ensure due process is followed.
All sound like valuable functions that it helps to have an expert/specialist on board facilitate and manage, but taken as a whole, and in conjunction with anti-discrimination laws (originally a good thing), and an education in gender and ethnic studies ... you now have the perfect role for a right-think busy body to inject themselves and their processes and objectives into, and warp, every facet of a company's operations, and become the dominant force in establishing the company "culture" (rather than the leaders and creators and workers who actually live it).
Equity not equality, outcomes not color blindness, different standards for different folks - this is where we crossed the line from fairness to insanity. Academia and education seem to be completely captured. As long as they are, we are crippled, possibly doomed to lead ourselves to our demise at our own hands. What can we do to reform these critical institutions?
Well said.
For a totalitarian system to work it must impose a complete inversion of reality, the better to keep the population unbalanced, and therefore more easily controlled. This is plainly happening across the West, but the Anglosphere is where it seems to be most concentrated. The society that produced Orwell seems poised to fulfill his most alarming predictions.
You're writing excellent, cogent, relevant stuff. Keep it up. Things are starting to pop, finally. maybe there's time to right this sinking ship after all.
Thanks, Scott. "The society that produced Orwell" – yes, that's the bitter irony of it. He gave us the lesson, and they read it like a manual.
Are you sure the police aren’t sociopaths?
I would have said their actions ‘I know, but we have to check, don’t we?’ and ‘I don’t think so mate’ more than prove they are.
It’s well known that the people who want power are the least fit to wield it.
That's a fair observation, and perhaps I was being too charitable. I'm still inclined to think the officers arrived sceptical, having taken the brother's call as fact – because they'd been conditioned to do so. None of which is to excuse what happened afterwards. My point is that the training is almost a form of engineered sociopathy.
Not sure if it's just an artifact of the quality of body cam footage at night and dark clothing, but there was not much blood visible which would perhaps lead the officers to believe it was more a problem of drunkenness and exaggeration ... but still, clearly a man in distress and not presenting a threat. The fact his own words were assumed to be false from the outset is the most damning symptom that reveals the problem (followed by the callow treatment he received).
He told them he’d been stabbed.
They didn’t bother to check.
Handcuffs are only supposed to be used when a suspect is mobile and causing problems. Poor Henry Nowak couldn’t even raise his head.
And even when it was ascertained that his murderer was lying and was arrested, HE wasn’t cuffed.
I did say, his own words were assumed to be false from the outset. The lack of obvious visual evidence just supported a bias that shouldn't have been present.
They despised Henry Nowak from the moment they got the call from the brother.
They treated him with the utmost indifference and cruelty. You can hear it in their voices. You can see it when they’re cuffing him and dragging him around.
There’s nothing there to indicate any kind of humanity. I think that’s a pretty good indicator.
Not one of them was human enough to say to themselves ‘this is wrong’ and act independently. I mean, seriously, WTF is WRONG with these people?
My thoughts exactly. They may have been indoctrinated, but at the end of the day, we are still responsible for our own actions.
Eva, university indoctrination happened, unlike other countries where police are typically working class:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/dec/15/new-police-officers-face-degree-requirement
In the past, a black man was lynched and people said, "He probably had it coming."
Today, a white man is stabbed and people say, "He probably had it coming."
Something brings to mind Enoch Powell's prophetic "Rivers of blood" speech.
This is what Corbynism does to a formally great nation. Divide, conquer, socialism, victimhood, and hate of certain people in the name of social justice.
Starmer is not Starmer, he is Corbyn wearing a Starmer body costume. The old communist geezer who never left the 70s and believed that the winter of discontent was how Britain should always behave won in the end. Welcome to parliamentary democracy lads!
I go even further, back to Blair. Even during Thatchers time, there was a long, traceable line of "Englishness" or "Britishness". From Blair onwards, that traceable line was - in some cases obviously deliberately - targetted for destruction.
"A young man is bleeding in front of you, lying on the ground, all but motionless, saying with what little life he has left that he can’t breathe. It’s an unambiguous distress signal; a dog would understand it. Consider what it takes, then, to respond first with mockery, then with handcuffs."
It's hard to distinguish these bastards from any run of the mill SS guard a couple of generations earlier.
Thanks Danny, I knew the story but was still too upset to break it down in manageable chunks. You helped. But boy, are we screwed in the West. Short of an all out uprising against the state, what can be done to reverse this?
Thanks – yes, I know what you mean. It feels like we can't vote our way out of this, but the truth is, the debased state we have today was built slowly, through institutions, and it will come apart the same way eventually. I'm not sure anything good ever comes of revolution (or more accurately, counter-revolution), and I see a lot of awful things ahead. Frederick.
It was ever thus.
Over the past few years I've gone back and watched old movies and t.v. shows because I find the new stuff pointless and infantile. Especially being beaten over the head with DEI. I was especially interested in pieces that were described as being "racist" or in some other way "politically incorrect". And something started to hit me between the eyes. Not just that they weren't actually racist. It was WHO was being attacked.
Just one example is the comedy set not just in the dying days of WWII but the dying days of the Raj: "It ain't half hot Mum". We've been told for years that the humour is racist, homophobic and God knows what else. But that conclusion is only possible if you view it through a woke lens, and you view the Indian characters as victims.
In every episode it's the natives and the ordinary soldiers who actually come out on top. Oh they might have to put up with the stupidity of the officer class but they usually end up winning the day. And how do they win the day? By using the system against itself.
The wisest man of all is the punkah wallah. He has the worst job, doesn't even speak English and is treated badly by the other Indians because of his religion and caste. But he always has the last word. Nobody actually hates the impossibly camp "Gloria" because he's a homosexual. And because there simply isn't a woman around, Gunner Beaumont gets away with all sorts because when they need a girl, well he'll do. There's all the stereotypes: the Taffy, the Jock, the over-educated idiot, the under-educated idiot, but they are all "every man". They understand the Indians in a way the officers can't and never will.
What the modern left can't get their heads around is that the officers are just moving deck chairs on the Titanic. They apply the rules to the letter of the law. Nobody else is taking any notice. It's R.S.M. Williams who actually runs things and he's not even English. He's Welsh. But the good idea that saves the day always comes from one of the troops or one of the Indians, but it has to look like they're following orders.
The comedy comes from the juxtapositions of absurdity. Lofty and Gloria play acting as Fred and Ginger, up the jungle on the Indian/Burmese border as they're fighting to save Western civilisation, while the great British Empire is dying all around them. The Bearer who above all wants to be more English than the colonel. THAT is what the progressive authoritarians can't cope with. It's the little guy being more concerned about surviving - physically, mentally and metaphorically - than fitting in with an overall plan worked out by an out of touch member of the elite sitting under a fan back in an office in Calcutta. Or worse still all the way back in Whitehall.
And the quinine in the tonic water is actually useful if you're trying to avoid malaria. In Surrey it's a bloody affectation.
This is a brilliant comment and adds greatly to the piece. Thank you.
Just my tuppence worth.
I loved that show. Great comment.
I’m afraid I have to take issue with your analysis. The cultural training aspect is important but I think there may a more fundamental issue that is not fully addressed in your article - the issue of expectation bias that we are all susceptible to.
In this tragic case, Digwa’s brother called the police to report a racial abuse incident. The police who attended were therefore already primed to expect a racial abuse incident. Expectation bias would have made it very difficult for them to arrive at the scene ready to investigate with an open mind.
As a former anaesthetist I am well aware of the perils of expectation bias. When an operating room crisis occurs, such as the patient’s oxygen levels plummeting, an anaesthetist can call for help from another anaesthetist. If that person is told that the problem is asthma ( the patient is known to suffer from chronic asthma) the second anaesthetist may try different drugs to resolve the “asthma”. However the problem is not asthma- the problem is that the patient’s breathing tube has been inserted too far and is only ventilating one lung. In order to fix such a problem an anaesthetist should always go back to basics, and step by step, figure out what the underlying problem is. That is what we are trained to do in a crisis. And that training is the antidote to expectation bias.
Without specific training about cognitive bias and how to manage it, I believe it would have been psychologically difficult for those police to counter the expectation bias that the brother’s phone call created.
I believe the brother was an accessory to murder.
You make a very interesting point. The brother's phone call undoubtedly had an effect and I agree he is an accessory to murder. We might wonder, though, what would have happened if the two brothers were white, one making a similar call about anti-white racism, the other claiming at the scene that the man on the ground had torn his St George's flag. Or what if the man on the ground had been wearing a turban or was black? Would expectation bias have influenced the police in the same way?
That's my point about the training. Expectations are themselves filtered through the kind of conditioning discussed in the piece. I'm not an expert and not all the facts are in, but it seems fair to question how such training shapes the expectations in the first place.
Yes I suspect both types of bias would have been present - conditioning bias, based on police culture and training, as you suggest, but also the expectation bias in relation to the brother’s phone call.
I’m at a bit of a loss as to why they phoned the police at all and didn’t just make a run for it. Given that they didn’t seem to want to help the victim in any way, the phone call could only have put them in jeopardy.
Yes, that's a bit of a mystery. Maybe they calculated that Nowak would have survived and then aided the police in hunting them down.
Horrible!
From what I've read, there were several unanswered 999 calls, Henry was heard jumping over the fence trying to escape, he landed on someones car, there were two smartphones in play (Digwa's and Henry's), and the authorities still thought they could *prove* Henry was the aggressor in a trial? Did the Jury, at least, get to hear/see what was on both phones? This pretense of 'Gracious, no we can't show you, it's too disturbing, you might get upset...' is demeaning and self-serving.
We might have to wait a while to find out whether this is one of those seminal moments, where people wake (woke ) up to the neo-marxist, post modernist ideas that have ideologicaly caputred our public instituions
I have seen it first hand and noticed it beginning to permeate policy in about 2018/19.
In fairness to the Police, they were quite late to the party. The NHS was first, followed by Local Government
I once asked of an EDI lead at a senior leadership meeting, what outcomes his team were trying to equalise through EDI. He couldn't answer the question - instead saying the EDI was just a lens through which to look at things. Needless to say they never got past the abstract ideas and didn't achieve anything
The irony was that they would oftern go on about the key stage results of, and systemic racism against black kids, when the data was telling them that it was poor white kids that performed worse