Racial hierarchy is embedded in the logic of Black Lives Matter. What it looks like in practice is the murder of Henry Nowak.
Public outrage in Britain is rising after the release of harrowing police bodycam footage in the stabbing and subsequent arrest of Henry Nowak, an 18-year-old university student who was killed December 3, 2025 in Southampton, England, by a 23-year-old Sikh man named Vickrum Digwa.
The circumstances of Nowak’s murder almost defy belief. On their own, they would be enough to send Britain into a spiral of race riots and civil unrest — if Nowak had not been white, and if his killer had not been Indian. As it is, the murder of Henry Nowak will probably not trigger the kind of rioting that George Floyd’s death did in the United States. But it does perfectly illustrate the logic of Black Lives Matter: racial minorities are to be believed and preferred, white people are not — even in cases where whites are the victims of violent crimes.
Digwa stabbed Nowak five times with an 8-inch Sikh ceremonial blade, which is illegal for anyone but Sikhs to carry in Britain, including a fatal stab to the chest, as Nowak was walking home from a night out with his English football team. Instead of calling an ambulance, Digwa called the police while his mother helped him hide the murder weapon.
When police arrived on the scene, he lied, telling them Nowak had called him a racist slur, which is a crime in Britain, owing to that country’s lack of anything like a First Amendment. So the police arrested Nowak, not Digwa, even as Nowak pleaded for medical aid, saying he had been stabbed. He told the officers he couldn’t breathe. He said this nine times, and four times he told them he had been stabbed.
The police didn’t believe him. On the video footage, an officer replies, “You’ve been stabbed, mate? I don’t think you have.” Police then handcuffed Nowak and dragged him across a gravel driveway, reading him his rights as he bled out. Three minutes later, Nowak lost consciousness. He died not long after, at the scene.
Instead of helping the victim of a violent attack, the police automatically believed Digwa. Why? Because he’s a racial minority and Nowak was white. The presumption of guilt and innocence, as far as the police were concerned, was determined entirely on the basis of race. The white boy must be guilty, the Sikh man must be the victim.