Nigel Farage has recently defended his call for “pure cold rage” in reaction to responding officers’ treatment of murder victim Henry Nowak. Worse still, he’s doubled down on his race-baiting, claiming that there’s worse yet to come.
Meanwhile, the Timeshas been doing all it can to tow the Reform leader’s party line. The right-wing rag has managed to dig up a Hampshire Police diversity training day questionnaire, reporting on the pigs feeling “pressured” and “controlled”, as if that’s somehow connected to them ignoring Nowak as he bled to death.
Back in the real world, the president of the National Black Police Association has warned that Farage’s rhetoric is in danger of setting policing back decades.
Farage promises ‘just the beginning’
In a Times Radio interview, Farage defended his call for “pure, cold rage”. He argued that:
I used that term very, very deliberately… I suggested that rage was put in a cold way, not a hot way.
What a precise instruction, delivered to charmers destroying a local community by chucking bins around.
And, Farage also claimed that the white riots in Southampton are “just the beginning”. He said:
large numbers of young white males think the police are prejudiced against them.
That would be because the Reform leader told them as much. Farage stood in front of a camera and bleated that Nowak’s treatment was a result of “anti-white prejudice”. He stated, without choking on his words, that the UK is a “two-tier system” that disadvantages white people.
As the Canary previously highlighted, Farage knew that his words would start a riot. Back in 2024, he was one of the figures throwing around the ‘two-tier policing’ rubbish which sparked the white riots during that period of time.
In a similar vein, at the time we also stated that the compliant corporate media aids and abets far-right politicians and hatemongers in stoking up racial tensions in these scenarios. However, what the Times is currently doing is far, far worse.
The Times parrots Farage’s tripe
On 4 June, the Times published an article titled:
Officers in force that failed Nowak ‘pressured’ by diversity course
This followed Farage’s attack line, attempting to blame DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) initiatives for so-called “anti-white prejudice”. The article reported that:
Police officers in the force that failed Henry Nowak felt “controlled and pressured” during diversity training, it has emerged.
An evaluation of a day-long Hampshire Police course titled Inclusion Matters found that more than one in seven officers experienced pressure “to be certain ways” during the training.
The course covered topics including racism, unconscious bias, privilege and “the importance of being an ally”.
The cops complained that being told about their privilege made them feel pressure to “be a certain way”, did they? Would that ‘certain way’ be ‘less racist’, by any chance?
Note the Times’ feeble attempt at a deception here. The right-wing rag has seized on a questionnaire response to a police diversity training day where a few cops complained. It makes absolutely no mention of when this training took place.
However, the article expects readers to connect that diversity training to officers ignoring a white man saying he’s been stabbed. Even if the training told the pigs to take claims of racialised abuse more seriously, nobody genuinely believes that extends to ‘ignore a white man when he says he can’t breathe’.
But then, the Timesisn’t looking for genuine belief. All it needs is its readers’ knee-jerk, unthinking anger. It needs blind hatred directed at the very concept of equality initiatives – just like far-right darling Farage wants.
‘There is a danger of policing going back’
Meanwhile, for those of us still concerned with fact, the police force’s extensive and well-documented history of systematic racism hasn’t gone anywhere. That ‘systematic’ bit is important. It’s a long-lasting, widespread and ongoing pattern, not a single instance of officers getting it badly wrong, as in Henry Nowak’s case.
In fact, the president of the National Black Police Association – chief inspector Andy George – has raised the alarm of Farage’s dangerous race-baiting. George warned that:
There is a danger of policing going back to a time long before Stephen Lawrence’s murder, to the 1960s and 1970s, because of the attacks from the far right which have been growing over the past few years, and which are becoming more mainstream.
Likewise, ex-chief inspector of constabulary Andy Cooke – who stepped down back in April – has stated outright that he saw no evidence of ‘anti-white bias’ during his tenure. Given that he’s a white cop, and a Tory appointee at that, we’re going to believe that he looked for it, too. Cook said:
Throughout my five years at the inspectorate, I found no evidence at all to support any claim there was an anti-white bias in operational policing. […]
This should be a period of time where politicians respect the family’s wishes and do not try to exploit such a tragic and painful situation to boost their political fortunes.
Instead, the former chief inspector accused Farage and his ilk of trying to “boost their political fortunes” by exploiting the Nowak case.
Nowak’s parents stated explicitly they didn’t want their son’s murder to be “used to create further division”. Farage and his lot don’t care. They’re working actively to reverse even fragile steps toward racial equality across the UK, and there’s no line they won’t cross, no cause they won’t exploit, in order to do so.
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