The Trump administration issued a sharp rebuke amid online outrage stemming from the murder of a young British student who died in custody while police tended to his killer who made false complaints of racism against the victim."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, and Vice President JD Vance weighed in not even 24 hours later to claim the killing and treatment of Nowak proves that western civilization is at risk.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 peopl...