His own father explicitly warned after the verdict against using his son’s death to fuel division, hatred, and tensions. He spoke of murder — not racism as a system.
On 3 december 2025, the 18-year-old British-Polish student Henry Nowak was stabbed in Southampton by Vickrum Digwa with a ceremonial dagger 21 centimeters long. When the police arrived, the perpetrator lied to the officers and claimed that the white victim had insulted him with racist language. The police believed the attacker — and handcuffed the dying Nowak on the ground while he repeatedly shouted that he could not breathe and had been stabbed. The stab wound was deep and hit the heart. Henry Nowak had no chance.
The parallels to George Floyd’s death are obvious: bodycam footage. A dying man saying he cannot breathe. Police officers who fail to help. And yet the comparison, however emotionally understandable, is analytically wrong.
Henry Nowak’s death has no such equivalent. His own father explicitly warned after the verdict against using his son’s death to fuel division, hatred, and tensions. He spoke of murder — not racism as a system.
And in fact: people from ethnic minorities are subject to systemic discrimination in the British justice system — not the other way around. The police error in the Nowak case was grave. But it was an exception to the trend, not evidence of a trend.
The exception proves the rule
This is exactly where precision matters. Anyone who uses the Nowak case to say, “See, white people are also victims of racist police violence” is exploiting a dead person for a thesis that the statistics do not support. And anyone who, conversely, ignores Nowak’s death because it does not fit the narrative is lying by omission.
The collective silence of part of the media about the Nowak case is real — and it is a failure. Not because Nowak’s death is a counterargument to Floyd’s, but because every dead person deserves a name. Because justice must not be selective.
The Truth is uncomfortable for all sides: Floyd died as part of a system. Nowak died despite a system that should have protected him. Both deserve outrage. But not the same analysis.
By Okay Altinisik | 6-6-2026, 9:41:18
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