Before George Floyd, before Michael Brown, there was Trayvon Martin.Back in 2012, the 17-year-old was shot and killed during a struggle with another young man in a Florida gated community.The tragedy that day was discussed in the national media and eventually adjudicated in a court of law.When the trial was over, President Barack Obama said: "When Trayvon Martin was first shot, I said that this could have been my son."Last December, an 18-year-old college student was stabbed by another young man in Southampton, England.
The victim’s name was Henry Nowak.The American press ignored the story.
The British press and politicians largely did too.TRUMP ADMIN SLAMS 'TWO-TIERED' POLICING AFTER BRITISH COPS CUFFED DYING MAN DEEMED RACIST BY KILLERFreshman student Henry Nowak (L.) 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; Press Association via AP Images)Like Obama, I thought: this could have been my son.Martin and Nowak were killed by private citizens, not in encounters with the police.There are many differences between the two cases — the races of both killers and victims; the locations, the motives.
But while the tiny Sanford, Fla., police station was merely accused of "sloppy work" by the New York Times in handling the Martin case, many in Britain believe that woke police bias contributed to Nowak’s death.Britain has admitted millions of immigrants in a short time.As late as 2001, the "White British" (English, Irish, Scottish or Welsh) were over 90% of the population.
Today, at most 75% are.Last year, only 53% of births were to women described as "White British." With huge demographic change has come an equally abrupt cultural change.200,000 SMALL BOAT ARRIVALS LOOM AMID UK RAISING THREAT LEVEL TO ‘SEVERE’ FOLLOWING RECENT TERROR ATTACKDespite being home to the "mother of parliaments," where the oratory of William Pitt and Winston...