So this is the awakening of the moral abyss that has dragged us into it.
A society where a dying young man is almost certainly handcuffed because someone accuses him of having a choice.
A hellish dystopia where the last thing a child hears when they take their last breath is a politically correct police officer reading them their rights.
A nightmare world where even the victim of a brutal stabbing cannot escape the arrogant suspicions of DEI-trained state beasts.
The brutal and lonely death of Henry Nowak has caused a storm here in the United Kingdom.
It should also send shivers down your spine – because it offers a delightful insight into the barbarism of awakening.
To see where the government’s acceptance of critical race theory can lead, look no further than the horrors inflicted on poor Henry.
He was 18 years old, in his first year at Southampton University on the south coast of England.
On December 3, 2025, she was on her way home from a relaxing time with her friends when she met Vickrum Digwa, a 23-year-old Sikh man.
There was some scuffle – then some brutal action.
Digwa took out an 8 inch knife.
He stabbed Henry five times, in the legs, chest and face.
Henry tried to run away, but the bleeding left him very weak.
He fell on an unfamiliar road.
Diggo chased him, mocked him, and took pictures of him with his phone.
It was like a lynching.
However, as sickening as this attack was, it was what happened next that left Britain stunned.
When the police arrived, Digwa told them a terrible lie: that Henry had racially abused her.
And the police bought it.
They believed the man who was standing straight, they didn’t believe the child who was cowering in fear and pain on the ground.
What they did next defied all logic and humanity: They dragged the badly injured boy across the heavy stones of the road.
They handcuffed him from behind to tie him up.
And all the time Henry was crying: “I’ve been stabbed!”
He said it four times.
He said “I can’t breathe” nine times, as his punctured lung filled with blood.
However, the police continued.
They read him his rights. They tied him up.
Henry fainted and died.
It is hard to imagine a death as painful and merciless as this.
A kid choked on its own blood last winter night, and the last thing it hears is the taunts of its killer and the dismay of the police at the arrest.
The dashcam footage of the moments of Henry’s death is heartbreaking.
Its release on Monday sparked outrage across the UK.
Yet it would be a mistake to see Henry’s death as a failure of individual princes.
No, this horror speaks to a deep moral decay: It reveals the damaging effect that vigilantism has had on the institutions of our society.
The reason the police believed this knife-wielding monster and chased away his dying victim was simple: The killer was a brown-skinned man, while his victim was a white-skinned man.
Critical race theory pervades British policing.
Under legal supervision, police must believe all allegations of “hate crimes.”
They are trained to be on the lookout for discrimination.
Indeed Hampshire Police, which includes Southampton, prides itself on its dedication to the state’s sacred duty of hunting down “hate”.
The “race action program” matches the kind of serious race you hear on all Ivy League campuses.
It describes the death of George Floyd in Minnesota in 2020 as a “significant moment” for British police, too.
That tragedy forced the force, he says, “against racism” in all police actions.
The irony is thick: The movement claims to have “learned lessons” from the death of a black man who cried “I can’t breathe” – yet just six years later its officers are brutally torturing a white boy who pleaded the same.
It’s their acceptance of the post-Floyd BLM craze that has caused these cops to bring young Henry into disrepute.
After reading a children’s text that casts whites as the oppressors and non-whites as the oppressed, they are encouraged to believe Digwa and doubt Henry.
To them he was just a white man, and what could be worse than that?
Digwa was finally charged this week, and was sentenced to life in prison for 21 years without the possibility of parole.
However, so much damage to society remains.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer and our entire political establishment are knee-jerk for the terrorist Floyd.
They did no such thing to kind, considerate Henry Nowak.
And here it is: “goodness,” the obscene racism of the risen elite.
Brendan O’Neill is a senior political writer for a British online magazine spiked.
