A stabbed teenager lay dying on the ground. Yet the police chose to treat him as the perpetrator, while the man who had stabbed him received far gentler treatment.

For many, Henry Nowak’s death has become a symbol of what happens when ideology takes precedence over reality.

British police allowed an 18-year-old white boy to drown in his own blood while they firmly placed him in handcuffs and arrested him for a racist hate crime. The racism allegation was a calculated lie invented by his killer, an older Sikh man, and the police swallowed the story whole. After all, everyone knows that white people—and especially white boys and men—are racists.

This is how far things have gone. Today, a person belonging to a minority can stab a white person to death without the police intervening. And the same thing could just as easily happen in Sweden.

The massive campaigns of hostility against white people have been going on for many years now, coming at us from every level of society. Criminals in immigrant-dominated neighborhoods who shout “racist” as an excuse for every crime they commit. Respected journalists who want to impose special taxes on white men for the sake of the climate. Whiteness researchers at colleges and universities. Artists and celebrities who openly “hate” white men. Migrants, migrant activists, lawyers, and public officials.

It never ends. And it is exactly the same in England.

Of course, such one-sided hostility has consequences. The police would never have treated Henry Nowak the way they did if they had not been brainwashed into believing that all white people are racists. That is why exactly the same thing could happen here.

A few years ago, I mocked the Swedish police’s double standards when it comes to the treatment of ethnic Swedes compared to people with immigrant backgrounds. Among other examples, I pointed to the police handling of Sweden’s Black Lives Matter demonstrations during the pandemic.

People from so-called vulnerable areas were allowed to march in large crowds despite restrictions, while ordinary people protesting high fuel prices by driving their cars—without posing a risk of spreading infection—were met with firm and heavy-handed policing.

I also discussed the police’s constant excuses for robberies committed against Swedes. It was always the victims’ own fault because they wore clothes that were too nice, watches that were too expensive, mobile phones that were too new, and so on endlessly.

I described a hypothetical scenario in which I, as a middle-aged white woman, was assaulted and robbed by perpetrators belonging to a group considered particularly vulnerable. How would the police respond to me? I imagined a conversation like this:

– The best thing is really to leave gold jewelry and other valuables at home when you go out, out of consideration for people who are less fortunate. Everyone has a responsibility toward those living in social and economic hardship, and you have clearly failed in that respect by provoking them unnecessarily.

– Provoking?

– Surely you understand that it is upsetting for disadvantaged people to see others enjoying luxuries they themselves cannot afford.

– Luxuries? I was only wearing my necklace and wedding ring and…

– Exactly. The wedding ring was gold, wasn’t it? Surely you understand that it is inappropriate to display it in front of people living under difficult circumstances?

– I don’t know, but I would like to report this crime. I was actually hit quite hard in the face as well…

– Now, calm down. If you had simply handed over your belongings without resisting, you probably would have avoided the black eye and broken nose. Think about that next time.

– But what about filing a report?

– We do not believe there are grounds for a report. The people who robbed you already have enough difficulties in their lives. How would it help if they had a police report filed against them?

– This is insane. You must be joking.

– Now, just stay calm and don’t make a fuss. You don’t want us to take you to the station, do you? The best thing you can do is go home, think about this, and make sure it doesn’t happen again.

Now a white British boy has been killed. And it is no longer possible to joke about it.

Henry Nowak drowned in his own blood while police dragged him across the ground, placed him in handcuffs, and refused to listen as he struggled to explain that he had been stabbed. The killer was not treated with half the same determination, even after it became clear that he had stabbed his victim and fabricated a story about racism. Everything was captured on video by the officers’ own body cameras.

You can watch it yourself. But a word of warning: it is both heartbreaking and infuriating.

Yesterday, Vickrum Digwa was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Henry Nowak. That is little comfort to Henry’s family, who must forever live with the fact that the police they themselves fund through their taxes allowed their son to die while treating his killer with dignity and respect.

It is like a nightmare. But for Henry Nowak’s family, it is a paralyzing and horrifying reality—one they will never be able to forgive.

This is what happens when hostility toward a particular ethnic group—the white population—permeates an entire society. And it will happen again, aided by well-meaning advocates occupying influential positions throughout the institutions of society.

When will we see the same thing happen in Sweden?
This article was originally published in Det Goda Samhället and is reproduced here with the author’s permission.