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War of words ignites over Trump admin rebuke of British police after teen bled to death in handcuffs
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A war of words has erupted between U.S. and British officials after a young Briton with a bright future bled out in handcuffs as police took him into custody on suspicion of making racial remarks, only to learn later that his killer fabricated the allegation.
The State Department issued a harsh rebuke Thursday night amid online outrage stemming from the stabbing of Henry Nowak, and Vice President JD Vance was quick to pile-on, claiming the incident proves that western civilization is at risk.
«Ideological conditioning and two-tiered policing are glaring symptoms of civilizational decline,» the State Department wrote Thursday in a viral post on X. «They must be rejected across the West. The United States sends our condolences to the family of Henry Nowak and the people of the United Kingdom at this troubling time.»
It was the first time the Trump administration commented publicly on the horrific stabbing.
Freshman student Henry Nowak was stabbed many times by Vikram Digwa who used an eight inch ceremonial knife in December 2025. Digwa was found guilty of murder in late May. (Hampshire police handout.)
In December 2025, Nowak was returning home from a night playing soccer with friends in the southern England city of Southampton when he encountered 23-year-old Vickrum Digwa, a British Sikh man of Indian heritage wearing a turban and carrying a long ceremonial knife.
Nowak was later handcuffed by police after Digwa claimed the student was racist against him, and police refused to believe him when he said he was stabbed. He died while in police custody.
«Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit,» Vance wrote on X in a lengthy post addressing the overseas crime.
«His murder is as tragic as it is enraging,» the vice president continued. «He should still be alive today, and he would be if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it.»
He reiterated how a top priority of the Trump administration is working to preserve western civilization by stopping mass migration.
ENGLISH COPS CUFFED TEEN STABBING VICTIM AFTER ATTACKER CLAIMED RACIAL ASSAULT
Vickrum Digwa was found guilty at Southampton Crown Court of murdering university student Henry Nowak by stabbing him five times with a Sikh kirpan ceremonial knife on Dec. 3, 2025, in Southampton. Digwa falsely claimed he was the victim of a racist attack after the stabbing. (Press Association via AP Images)
Vance’s post drew an immediate response from across the pond.
«In recent days we have seen people trying to interfere in our democracy and seeking to stir up division on our streets,» a Downing Street spokesperson said.
«The Nowak family are grieving after Henry’s horrific murder. They have said they do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension. We should be respecting their wishes,» the statement continued. «Our politics should bring people together even in the most terrible of circumstances. That is who we are as a country.»
Nowak filmed the initial encounter before his death, where he called Digwa a «bad man.»
«I am a bad man,» Digwa replied, taking offense to the comment. He then stabbed the student five times, including a fatal wound to his chest. What came next sparked worldwide outrage while Digwa, now convicted of murder, was on trial in May.
Body cameras worn by officers show Digwa alleging racial abuse and claiming Nowak removed his turban. The police took Digwa’s word, and handcuffed Nowak when they located him. Footage shows Nowak lying on the ground, repeatedly telling officers he couldn’t breathe.
When Nowak told officers he had been stabbed, one is heard dismissing him with: «Don’t think you have, mate.»
The young student bled to death in police custody.
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Vice President JD Vance during a news conference in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026. (L) Britain’s PM Starmer speaks during a press conference, in London. (Bonnie Cash/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Thomas Krych/Pool via REUTERS)
It was later revealed that Digwa called his mother, Kiran Kaur, who arrived at the crime scene before the police so she could take the murder weapon to their family home and hide it. She was recently found guilty of assisting an offender and will be sentenced July 17.
Digwa was sentenced on June 1 to life in prison with a minimum term of 21 years.
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Carrying knives in Britain is a heavily regulated practice, and certain types of knives are banned entirely. Digwa’s knife was considered an exception due to his religious beliefs, which also fanned the flames of the controversy surrounding the murder.
British law has a provision allowing Sikhs to carry kirpans, which are ceremonial religious knives. In Digwa’s case, he was carrying an eight-inch blade.
The country’s tightening speech laws have also come to the forefront, with critics arguing that police in Nowak’s case were too blinded by the report of racism to notice he had been mortally wounded. Since the Online Safety Act of 2023 took effect, swaths of Britons have been jailed for internet posts deemed racist by authorities.
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Police eventually apologized for the way the stabbing was handled.
«I want to say that I am sorry that Henry couldn’t be saved that night. I’m sorry that he was handcuffed and arrested in the moments before he lost consciousness,» Temporary Deputy Chief Constable Robert France of the Hampshire Constabulary said, according to Sky News.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio looks on during a dedication ceremony for an annex building at the U.S. embassy in New Delhi on May 23, 2026. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AFP)
Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Miss., also responded amid the controversy.
«Britain has a regime willing to jail people for tweets, but unwilling to protect its own citizens from bleeding out in the street,» he said in response to the State Department’s post. «Henry Nowak deserved better. That is what civilizational decline looks like. This is the future the Left is trying to import. We have to stop it.»
So did SpaceX founder and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk, who posted multiple times about the case.
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«Send the video to everyone you know showing how heinously Nowak was treated by the police in his dying moments and how the police cravenly kowtowed to his murderer,» he said in one post that was viewed 28 million times. «Legacy mainstream media, same ones who wrote about George Floyd millions of times, are dead silent about Nowak.»
«The West has created an utterly evil state religion where an accusation of ‘racism’ is the gravest offense that can be committed, even worse than rape or murder!» he said in another, «So if police show up at a crime scene and a British boy is bleeding out and an immigrant says the British boy is racist the cops will cuff the dying British boy.»
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Jill Biden says former president will live with stage 4 cancer ‘for the rest of his life,’ has slowed down
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Former first lady Dr. Jill Biden gave an update on former President Joe Biden’s cancer on Saturday, saying that though the 83-year-old will live with cancer for the rest of his life, he maintains a busy schedule, but has slowed down.
Biden explained during a discussion with political commentator and «The View» co-host Ana Navarro for her new book «View From the East Wing: A Memoir,» that while her husband was still president and had a team of doctors, she mentioned that he was getting up seven times a night to go to the bathroom, and she assumed that someone would follow up on that.
But she said when they left the White House in 2025 and his problem persisted, she said she told him he had to go see a urologist and in his first appointment the doctor said, «There’s something there,» and the former president was given a CAT scan.
«I never imagined it would be prostate cancer,» she admitted. «I just never imagined it.»
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Former first lady Dr. Jill Biden gave an update on former President Joe Biden’s cancer on Saturday, saying that the 83-year-old will live with cancer for the rest of his life, he maintains a busy schedule but has slowed down. (Grant Baldwin/Getty Images)
While she said in some cases prostate cancer can be «cured, «the problem with Joe — it’s stage four, and it has metastasized to his bones. So that puts things on a whole different level. I mean, Joe will have to live with cancer for the rest of his life, which means he’s on special medicines.»
She said he also went through radiation, which involved going from where they live in Delaware to Philadelphia constantly for five weeks.
«You know, it takes a toll,» she said, adding that on Friday night her husband was in South Dakota for a Democratic Party event, on Saturday he was at a friend’s wedding, and Sunday he’ll be in Philadelphia.
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Then-President Joe Biden and then-first lady Jill Biden at the Democratic National Convention after he dropped out of the race in 2024. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
«He keeps his schedule, but he’s slowed down,» she said. «I mean, stage four cancer is — and he’s 83 — so, I think the mix of everything and the medications that he’s taken has made life a little more difficult these days.»
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When asked how she’s been handling the situation, Biden said: «It’s hard to be a caretaker,» noting that the former president wouldn’t want her to phrase it that way, but explaining that she’s the one responsible for all the details.
«I have to make sure he gets the right medications,» she explained. «I’m the one talking to the doctors. I’m the one setting up the appointments. I’m the one to make sure that he eats well.»
Joe Biden announced his cancer diagnosis in May 2025.
Earlier this week, the former first lady told the «Today» show that her husband is «doing OK.»
«He’s out making speeches, and he’s traveling on Amtrak,» she added. «He was just at the Delaware Memorial Bridge for the veteran’s ceremony. So yeah, he’s doing a lot, but he has stage 4 cancer.»
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Biden and Navarro also talked about some other issues she wrote about in her book, including when the former president made the decision to drop out of the 2024 race after his disastrous debate in June 2024.
She said he turned to her while they were at their home in Delaware and told her: «I have no choice.»
Former President Joe Biden speaking at Rev. Jesse Jackson’s funeral in March. (Earl Gibson III/Deadline via Getty Images)
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Biden added that it was also «hurtful» to her when she saw Democrats, many of whom had been their friends for decades, publicly calling for Biden to drop out of the race.
But she said Biden reconciled with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was believed to have been privately leading calls for him to leave the race, at the funeral for Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, in January.
The 75-year-old admitted that she still hasn’t spoken to Pelosi.
She also said she believes there has been a «double standard» in the conversations around her husband’s age and mental acuity when compared to President Donald Trump, who will turn 80 on June 14.
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For the next president after Trump leaves office, Biden said she’s looking for someone with integrity, trustworthiness, and empathy, but didn’t name any names.
«They’re the characteristics of the American people,» she said. «That’s who we are.»
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Cómo avanza la investigación por la muerte de la beba que fue quemada viva por su padrastro mientras la bañaba
La mamá de la beba de 16 meses que murió luego de sufrir graves quemaduras mientras era bañada por su padrastro no tiene dudas de que su pareja la atacó intencionalmente. En ese sentido, explicó que el hombre sentía celos de la atención que ella le dedicaba a la nena.
“Al principio de la relación todo iba muy bien, pero después empecé a ver actitudes conmigo. Me decía que me implicaba mucho con mi niña y con el padre de mi niña”, contó Andrea Burdalo, la mamá de la víctima.
El caso ocurrió a fines de marzo en Sevilla, España, pero trascendió en los últimos días después de la muerte de la beba, ocurrida el pasado viernes 29 de mayo. La nena estuvo dos meses internada, pero falleció como consecuencia de una infección derivada de los injertos de piel que intentaron hacerle.
Burdalo al principio se negaba a creer que su pareja le haya causado daño a su hija de forma intencional, pero después de hablar con los médicos asimiló que lo había hecho. Cuando pudo procesarlo, presentó la denuncia.
“El primer día me dijeron los médicos que si hubiese sido un accidente se hubiese quemado un brazo, una manito. No se hubiese quemado las córneas. Mi niña se quedó sin párpados. En la cabeza no le iba a crecer el pelo. Se había quedado con una secuela muy grave», relató en diálogo con la prensa española.
Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocio. (Foto: Google Street View).
“Al principio yo tenía contacto con él porque no me entraba en la cabeza que esto podría haber sido intencionado. Al principio tanto él como su familia me preguntaban como estaba todo, pero después dejaron de preguntarme”, señaló.
La distancia con quien era su pareja se fue incrementando hasta que ella decidió denunciarlo. “Se han enterado del fallecimiento de mi hija y lo único que he recibido es un mensaje de la madre, que me habló diciéndome si a mi no me daba pena llamar a su hijo asesino, y yo simplemente le he dicho que a mí la única pena que me da es haber enterrado a mi hija un domingo”, contó.
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El subdelegado del Gobierno en Sevilla, Francisco Toscano, explicó que la investigación está en etapa inicial y que se mantienen todas las hipótesis abiertas por el momento, consignó De acuerdo con la información publicada el portal 20 Minutos.
El resultado de la autopsia será clave para avanzar con la causa, ya que se espera que “muestre alguna posible etiología” que podrá determinar “cuál es el camino más acertado de todas las variables” que evalúan los investigadores.
Toscano señaló que hasta el momento no hay detenidos. El acusado se presentó ante la justicia y declaró antes de que la beba muriera. Ahora, el caso es investigado como “homicidio” y se espera que el hombre declare nuevamente en los próximos días.
La nena sufrió graves quemaduras mientras su padrastro la bañaba
Burdalo contó que no era la primera vez que su pareja bañaba a la nena: “La había bañado millones de veces. Estuve con él un periodo de seis o siete meses, cuando me iba a trabajar él se quedaba con mi niña y nunca hubo ningún problema”.
Sin embargo, ese día pasó lo peor. La mujer dijo que su pareja entró a la nena a la ducha, cerró la puerta del baño y se quedó con ella adentro. Minutos después, la escuchó llorar y él empezó a gritar “la niña se ha quemado, la niña se ha quemado”.
“Fui al cuarto de baño y la veo quemada de arriba a abajo, Lo único que no tenía quemado eran las manos y los pies y la parte de la boca”, recordó y detalló: “Lo único que recuerdo es que me fui con mi niña en brazos al dormitorio, vino mi tía y le puso el body como pudo”.
Sobre la reacción de su pareja en ese momento, señaló: “Él estaba totalmente desencajado, decía ‘qué he hecho, me estoy volviendo loco’”. Según relató, el hombre le dijo que se distrajo un momento al intentar buscar una toalla y que fue ahí cuando la nena se acercó al agua caliente y se quemó.
Según el citado medio, la beba entró al centro de salud con el 60% de su cuerpo quemado: “Los médicos me dijeron que seguramente él la había agarrado de las manitos o que le había tapado la boca para echarle agua. Mi niña no tenía ni jabón, como que él tenía ya la idea de hacer lo que ha hecho”.
El hecho era investigado por la Policía Nacional. “Lo único que quiero es que acabe como mi hija o que lo encierren. Es lo único que pido”, concluyó la mujer.
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