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English cops cuffed teen stabbing victim after attacker claimed racial assault
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English police are facing mounting scrutiny after officers handcuffed an 18-year-old university student as he bled to death following a fatal stabbing, allegedly after believing the attacker’s false claim that he had been the victim of a racist assault.
The case has sparked outrage across Britain, fueled political debate over policing and prompted calls for the release of body-worn camera footage from the responding officers.
Alan Mendoza, executive director and co-founder of the London-based Henry Jackson Society think tank, told Fox News Digital that the case reflected broader failures in British policing culture. «The killing of Henry Nowak shows how far the rot of political correctness has set into the British policing mentality,» Mendoza said.
«The reflex attitude today appears to be to believe any and every claim that mentions racism,» he added. «It clearly trumped actual murder in this case as a dying Mr. Nowak was arrested on the say-so of his Sikh assailant without any facts being established by the officers attending.»
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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 last week. (Hampshire police handout.)
Vickrum Digwa, 23, was convicted Thursday at Southampton Crown Court of murdering Henry Nowak, an 18-year-old finance student at the University of Southampton, during a confrontation on Dec. 3, 2025.
Officers arriving at the chaotic scene initially treated Nowak as the suspect after Digwa allegedly claimed he had been racially abused and attacked. Officers handcuffed Nowak before realizing the severity of his injuries. He later collapsed and died at the scene despite attempts to administer first aid, according to Sky News.
Following the verdict, Hampshire Constabulary publicly apologized and referred the case to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), England and Wales’ police watchdog, for investigation. «I’m sorry that he was handcuffed and arrested in the moments before he lost consciousness,» Temporary Deputy Chief Constable Robert France said in a statement reported by Sky News.
Prosecutors told jurors Digwa stabbed Nowak multiple times using a 21-centimeter blade described in court as a Sikh kirpan-style weapon. Digwa claimed he acted in self-defense after being racially abused, but jurors rejected that argument and found him guilty of murder.
The case has since ignited fierce public debate online and in British media over whether police prioritized allegations of racism over basic investigative and medical procedures.
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Handout photo issued by Hampshire Police of Vickrum Digwa who has been found guilty at Southampton Crown Court of the murder of university student Henry Nowak, who he stabbed to death with a Sikh kirpan ceremonial knife. Digwa told police a «wicked lie» that he was the victim of a racist attack after he stabbed finance student Henry Nowak, from Chafford Hundred, Essex, five times in the incident in Belmont Road, Southampton, on Dec. 3 2025. Issue date: Thursday, May 28, 2026. (Press Association via AP Images)
Speaking on GB News on Friday, Reform UK Member of Parliament Robert Jenrick called for the release of body-worn camera footage if the Nowak family consents.
«The officers chose to prioritize the accusation of racial abuse over saving the life of this young man,» Jenrick said. «I think that was a terrible mistake.»
Jenrick also criticized what he described as a muted response from Britain’s political establishment compared to reactions following the 2020 death of George Floyd in the United States.
«The Prime Minister says absolutely nothing. The Home Secretary says absolutely nothing.»
The killing has also raised concerns about hostility toward Britain’s Sikh community, which Sikh organizations have sought to distance from the crime.
In a public statement issued following the verdict, Sikh community organizations condemned the killing and stressed that the case should not be viewed as representative of Sikhism.
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File of a police car in Derbyshire, England. (Derbyshire Constabulary via Facebook)
«Henry’s life has tragically been cut short by a moment of madness by an individual for which there can be no excuses,» the statement said.
The organizations also acknowledged that «the actions of police officers who handcuffed the victim just before he died» had intensified criticism of police and «unnecessarily stirred up community hatred.»
The statement further emphasized that legal protections allowing Sikhs in Britain to carry ceremonial kirpans for religious purposes do not apply if the blade is used violently.
«We understand in this case the weapon that may have been used was not the normal Kirpan worn by fully practicing Sikhs,» the statement read.
Mendoza stressed that Britain’s Sikh community broadly condemned the murder and supported the investigation.
«It’s legal for Sikhs to carry ceremonial knives in the U.K. but they are almost always tiny ones that religious authorities have ordained are sufficient to fulfil the obligation,» Mendoza told Fox News Digital. «He had one of those, plus his [8 inch] blade.»
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A member of the London Met Police stands guard outside Westminster Abbey. (BEN STANSALL/AFP via Getty Images)
He also described Digwa as «a weapons nut,» referencing evidence presented during the trial that prosecutors said showed the defendant had a fascination with knives and weapons.
The IOPC investigation into the officers’ actions remains ongoing. Fox News Digital reached out to Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary for comment but did not receive a response before publication.
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The Democratic Socialists of America just won $5.2 million in an inheritance dispute, according to a new legal filing, handing the organization a major financial boost as it seeks to expand its influence within the Democratic Party.
The $5.2 million award is serious money for the Democratic Socialists of America, amounting to nearly an entire year of revenue for the organization, according to its tax filings.
For a little over a year, the Democratic Socialists of America had been embroiled in a legal dispute over the will of New York University professor David Greenberg, who died in July 2024. Greenberg stipulated in his will that the contents of his New York University retirement account should be transferred to the New American Movement, a now-defunct left-wing activist group, or «any successor thereof» upon his death.
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The New American Movement merged with the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee to form the Democratic Socialists of America in 1982, according to contemporary coverage in left-wing media outlets.
Greenberg, a sociology professor, spent much of his life involved with left-wing movements, and his NYU obituary described him as «a prominent figure in America’s radical criminology movement.»
The Democratic Socialists of America just won $5.2 million in an inheritance dispute, according to a new legal filing. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Martin Hecht, Greenberg’s nephew, contended that the Democratic Socialists of America failed to file the proper paperwork to be considered the legal successor and that New York University failed to fulfill its fiduciary duty to Greenberg by not making sure his will accurately reflected his wishes before his death.
The judge presiding over the case ultimately sided with the Democratic Socialists of America, handing it the multimillion-dollar sum. Hecht initiated his lawsuit in April 2025, and the case was ultimately decided Monday.
The $5.2 million constituted the majority of Greenberg’s wealth, with a separate account worth $1.3 million being transferred to his estate without dispute, according to a legal filing.
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On Inauguration Day Jan. 20, 2025, Democratic Socialists of America members marched in Washington, D.C., carrying signs that said, «SOCIALISM BEATS FASCISM,» equating the incoming Trump administration to fascism. (Asra Q. Nomani/Fox News Digital)
This cash comes at an opportune time for the organization.
Candidates affiliated with or backed by the Democratic Socialists of America have enjoyed a string of victories in recent months, beginning with Zohran Mamdani’s election as New York City mayor in 2025 and continuing with 2026 primary wins by candidates such as Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier, who bested establishment-backed opponents in New York’s congressional primaries.
Socialist candidates have also won primary races in Philadelphia, the District of Columbia and Colorado.
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Members of the Democratic Socialists of America gather outside a Trump-owned building during a May Day rally in New York City in 2019. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
The victories, several of which came against Democratic incumbents, have expanded the Democratic Socialists of America’s foothold in government and given the group greater influence over the party, particularly in heavily Democratic urban districts.
What the Democratic Socialists of America ultimately will use its newfound wealth to do has not been disclosed, but its past spending behavior may provide some clues.
The organization, for instance, regularly spends big on advertisements meant to convince people to vote for Democratic Socialists of America-backed candidates. In an August 2024 blog post, one New York Democratic Socialists of America member floated paying for advertisements to support the organization’s recruitment efforts.
Tax documents filed by the Democratic Socialists of America in November 2025 show that the organization distributes cash to its local chapters and aligned groups while also spending big on community mobilization and messaging campaigns.
These efforts appear to have borne some fruit. In early July, the Democratic Socialists of America announced that it had grown to 120,000 members, claiming that it had become the «largest socialist organization in United States history.»
The Democratic Socialists of America and Hecht’s attorneys did not respond to a request for comment when reached by Fox News Digital.
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Los capturaron cargando televisores y lavadoras tras aprovechar incendio en almacén de República Dominicana
Un incendio de grandes proporciones afectó este sábado las instalaciones de un almacén, ubicado en la marginal de la autopista Las Américas, kilómetro 13, en Santo Domingo Este, donde la Policía Nacional recuperó productos saqueados y detuvo a más 17 personas involucradas en robos tras el siniestro.
Así lo confirmaron fuentes oficiales y medios locales, tras la viralización de imágenes en redes sociales que mostraron a varias personas llevándose electrodomésticos y otros artículos mientras avanzaban las llamas.
El operativo permitió la detención de diecisiete personas en flagrante delito, quienes fueron sorprendidas presuntamente cargando mercancías sustraídas del establecimiento, entre ellos se encontraban televisores, neveras, lavadoras, microondas y otros electrodomésticos.
La Policía detalló que los artículos recuperados fueron trasladados a un centro habilitado para su resguardo. En un comunicado, la institución desmintió “de manera categórica las versiones falsas que circulan en medios de comunicación y redes sociales, en las que se pretende atribuir a agentes de la institución el uso de unidades oficiales para sustraer electrodomésticos durante el incendio registrado en la empresa”.
Según la policía, “las imágenes evidencian, con los electrodomésticos y personal del almacén presentes, que la actuación de nuestros agentes estuvo orientada exclusivamente a enfrentar actos delictivos, agarrar a personas involucradas en robos y recuperar electrodomésticos sustraídos del establecimiento”.
Durante una intervención ante la prensa, el vocero de la institución policial, Diego Pesqueira, explicó: “El reporte que tenemos es que estas personas, que desde mi punto de vista son delincuentes, aprovecharon en el momento que se inició este incendio que ha reducido a cenizas esta empresa. Aprovecharon para saquear y cargar con algunos ajuares. Gracias a la intervención de la Policía Nacional, han sido detenidas hasta el momento más de diecisiete personas, que fueron sorprendidas en flagrante delito mientras cargaban distintos tipos de ajuares”.
Pesqueira agregó que varias unidades policiales se emplearon para trasladar los artículos recuperados y evitar confusiones sobre el uso de vehículos oficiales. “Hemos utilizado varias de nuestras unidades policiales para trasladar a un centro que ha sido habilitado para llevar estos artículos que están siendo recuperados, ocupados, en poder de estos saqueadores, quienes han sido apresados. Queremos aclarar esa parte para que no se vaya a confundir y le agradecemos su pregunta”.
Policías recuperaron neveras, lavadoras, microondas, abanicos y otros electrodomésticos sustraídos de almacén incendiado. (Retomado de: Diego Pesqueira)
Los detenidos serán puestos a disposición del Ministerio Público para los procedimientos legales correspondientes. La Policía Nacional reiteró que su intervención buscó “preservar el orden público, proteger vidas y bienes, prevenir hechos delictivos y garantizar la seguridad durante la emergencia”, al tiempo que exhortó a la población a verificar la información antes de divulgarla y a no difundir contenidos falsos que puedan desacreditar la labor institucional.
Las autoridades mantienen un perímetro de seguridad debido al riesgo de colapso parcial de la estructura del local y piden a la población no acercarse al área, acatando las instrucciones de los organismos de socorro mientras continúan las labores de remoción de escombros y evaluación de daños.
De acuerdo con la Defensa Civil de República Dominicana, técnicos especializados se desplegaron en la zona para colaborar en la extinción del incendio, cuyas causas permanecen bajo investigación. A pesar de la magnitud del fuego, no se han reportado víctimas mortales.
El operativo de emergencia incluyó la presencia de personal del Cuerpo de Bomberos de Santo Domingo Este, dirigido por el general Roberto Santos Méndez, quien coordinó unas quince unidades, así como la intervención del alcalde Dio Astacio y el subdirector del Centro de Operaciones de Emergencias (COE), coronel Edwin Olivares.
La Policía Nacional implementó un amplio dispositivo de seguridad para proteger a la ciudadanía, preservar el orden y respaldar las labores de los organismos de emergencia. El despliegue fue supervisado por el director regional Santo Domingo Oriental, general Claudio González Moquete, bajo instrucciones del director general de la institución, mayor general Andrés Modesto Cruz Cruz.
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Bipartisan pair of senators urge Rubio to release aid to African women, children at risk of Ebola
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The CDC is coordinating the ‘safe withdrawal’ of at least six Americans exposed to a deadly Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo after the WHO declared a global health emergency.
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Senators Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., are urging the State Department to release hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to help women and infants affected by an Ebola outbreak in East Africa.
In a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio Thursday, the senators urged him to use $608 million in congressionally approved international family-planning funds and distribute $1.7 million in already purchased family-planning supplies.
The supplies, which the senators implied included condoms, hormonal contraception, post-rape care medicine and hemorrhage medicines, are being stored at a site in Geel, Belgium, according to the letter.
The senators said if the supplies aren’t used, their understanding is that they will be «destroyed.»
Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska and Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., wrote a letter Thursday to Secretary of State Marco Rubio asking the administration to release congressionally appropriated funds to help women and infants at risk of contracting Ebola. (Ida Marie Odgaard/Annabelle Gordon)
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«Ebola during pregnancy is catastrophic, with a nearly 100 percent fetal loss rate and catastrophic material mortality risk due to severe hemorrhaging,» the lawmakers wrote.
«By providing women with the option to voluntarily prevent unplanned pregnancies and to protect themselves from transmission of the virus and have access to clinics, the United States can prevent further deaths of women and the cruel and certain death of any fetus exposed to the virus,» they added.
The senators also asked the State Department to issue a «humanitarian exception» to support the United Nations Population Fund’s existing health clinics in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Psychologists speak with Nyota Safi, a patient who recovered from Ebola virus disease, at the Rwampara Ebola Treatment Centre in Bunia, Ituri, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo July 13, 2026. (Benediction Murhabazi/AFP via Getty Images)
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As of July 29, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had reported 3,532 Ebola cases in the DRC and 1,556 deaths, representing a mortality rate of roughly 44%.
In neighboring Uganda, there have been 20 confirmed cases and two deaths, according to the CDC.
Murkowski and Shaheen told the State Department the virus’s rapid spread «leaves no time for delay in providing all possible interventions to save lives.»
Health workers start simulations on admission of suspected cases and evacuation of those deceased during a training by medical charity, Médecins Sans Frontières, in Kenya July 10, 2026. (Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images)
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«The cost of [the] United States response is approaching $1 billion,» they wrote. «Investment now in voluntary family planning is fiscally rational in addition to being morally urgent.»
Fox News Digital reached out to the State Department for comment.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio attends the ASEAN Post-Ministerial Conference at the Philippine International Convention Center in Pasay, Metro Manila, Philippines, July 22, 2026. (Eloisa Lopez/Pool Photo via AP)
The earliest known case in the latest Ebola outbreak involved a health worker in the DRC’s Ituri Province who developed symptoms in late April and later died, though the World Health Organization (WHO) believes transmission may have begun as early as March.
The WHO was first alerted to the outbreak May 5 after four health workers died within four days. Ten days later, investigators confirmed that the illness was caused by Bundibugyo virus, a form of Ebola.
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