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Michael Higgins: The insidious 'anti-racism' that plagues U.K. police also infects Canada

U.K. officers arrested dying teen falsely accused of racism, refusing to believe he'd been stabbed

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The senseless murder of teenager Henry Nowak on a cold, dark British street is doubly tragic: he was both the innocent target of a determined knifeman and the victim of incompetent police officers indoctrinated in anti-racism dogma.

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Nowak, who was white, bled to death as he lay helpless on a gravel driveway, handcuffed and arrested by police who disbelieved he had been stabbed multiple times in favour of his killer, who was brown and played the race card.

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There are parallels between the deaths of Nowak and George Floyd five years earlier, and a more troubling connection — it was the death of Floyd in Minnesota in 2020 that gave rise to the so-called progressive anti-racism training that proved so flawed and disturbing on a U.K. street last December.

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