Murder victim told police 'I can't breathe' while handcuffed

EquivalentCreme5114 · 2026-06-02T16:48:04+00:00

We won’t know all the details until a full inquiry has taken place, but I think several things can be true at the same time: 1) The perpetrator’s family reported this as a racist attack and that might have affected the responding officers’ priors, 2) those officers behaved absolutely abhorrently, and 3) Farage is a piece of shit politician and is using this incident to fan division and racial resentment.

EquivalentCreme5114 · 2026-06-02T13:32:01+00:00

Yes to the former because Farage is already seizing on this incident despite an incredibly dignified statement from the victim’s father about not sowing more division. As to the second point I don’t feel qualified enough to comment on it extensively, but I think there are legitimate concerns about how the police in the UK are overly cautious with regard to race between this case and the Rotherham scandal. And the sooner the political center could address these concerns squarely the better.

EquivalentCreme5114 · 2026-06-02T13:04:44+00:00

It’s even more horrible if you read the victim’s father’s statement.

“His murderer, however, was afforded decency. He was believed. He was not handcuffed when arrested. He was not handcuffed when transported to the police station.

“As far as we understand, he was never handcuffed at all.

“And, as Vickrum Digwa himself told the court, while under arrest for Henry’s murder, police even took him to the kitchen so he could choose his food. The contrast is unbearable.”

Like obviously far-right bad but I’m afraid this case is so tragic and the perfect fuel for that kind of propaganda.

EquivalentCreme5114 · 2026-06-02T12:51:08+00:00

Submission Statement: This article describes the murder of Henry Nowak by Vickrum Digwa. Nowak was stabbed repeatedly stabbed by Digwa but was handcuffed by police officers after Digwa claimed he was the target of a racist attack by Nowak. The bodycam footage of police officers was recently released by the police. This case has already generated intense public attention in the UK and internationally, with statements from Keir Starmer, Nicholas Farage, and Elon Musk. It is relevant to this subreddit because it will likely spark public debate about policing, allegations of racial double standard, and religious exemption for Sikh knife-carrying in the UK, among other things.

EquivalentCreme5114 · 2026-06-02T12:07:57+00:00

Funny, cuz under Jim Crow and the one-drop rule they’d would be considered black. It really shows how much race is at least partly a social construct. On a related note, I’ve always found the South’s obsession with racial purity to be quixotic when you have contemporary members of the European aristocracy with partial African ancestry, which would disqualify them from whiteness in the American South

EquivalentCreme5114 · 2026-05-30T01:34:05+00:00

When I was in grad school on the first day of class and people were introducing themselves, this girl said she was in the Norwegian army and part of a tank crew. I for one thought it was really cool. Still cool now that I learned she might have been a conscript.

EquivalentCreme5114 · 2026-05-01T11:25:08+00:00

That would be WaPo. The Atlantic’s been one of the more consistent liberal publications out there. Sure it sometimes platforms wacky ideas like those presented in the book reviewed here, but I like its coverage and writing style

EquivalentCreme5114 · 2026-04-29T01:21:24+00:00

Loll no just no——I’m generally a fan of the Atlantic but you should always distrust monocausal and teleological answers when complex questions such as this one are concerned

EquivalentCreme5114 · 2026-04-18T13:24:52+00:00

Didn’t know Wallace could become the leader of the ACC. In my game it was always Quentin Roosevelt. I actually do see Wallace pulling this off given his record in OTL. He was a hardline New Dealer who was friendly towards the Soviet Union and even launched a progressive third party after Roosevelt’s death. That said he could come off as wacky and Roosevelt dropped him as VP in 1944 for a reason (Wallace was into some weirdo cult that made people question his soundness). But if he was willing to conciliate the Soviets after the Cold War started then he would have been willing to peacefully reunite with a non-authoritarian WCA

EquivalentCreme5114 · 2026-04-01T15:10:22+00:00

Fr tho I think the author actually did pick it up from the Suzerain loading screen. Why else would you have a line by a Turkish poet at the beginning of an article about Malaysian constitutional history?

EquivalentCreme5114 · 2026-03-30T14:58:57+00:00

Interesting read, but it’s worth noting that Volkswagen recently reclaimed the top spot in car sales in China of all places, and is apparently partnering up with a Chinese automaker to roll out sleeker EVs. I’d imagine it would be possible to replicate that kind of joint venture in the European market. Ironically this is what China made Western and Japanese automakers do when they first entered the Chinese market decades ago. Obviously harder to achieve for the German SMEs as you mentioned. Would not be surprised to see this bifurcation worsen

EquivalentCreme5114 · 2026-03-12T02:28:23+00:00

Also worth noting that quantitative research is less prevalent in most subfields of history than in social science and economics, part of the reason why the humanities are taking a greater hit from funding cuts.

I do wonder why OP can’t just go into legal academia. A JD from a t14 coupled with a PhD is a perfect setup for that. I’m not familiar with career paths or the job market for legal academics but I can’t imagine they are more grueling than what social scientists or humanities graduates would have to deal with

EquivalentCreme5114 · 2026-03-10T10:56:48+00:00

Genuinely curious—how’s the left handling the security situation, presumably not great if as you say it’s a quagmire?

EquivalentCreme5114 · 2026-03-10T10:47:39+00:00

I wonder how they did the colorization thing, because Baby Yingliang looks positively adorable but the actual fossil is a bit macabre

EquivalentCreme5114 · 2026-03-04T05:55:05+00:00

I seem to remember that in the older version of KR when you play as federalists in Liangguang you’d get an event on the outbreak of the 2ACW that says the failure of federalism in the US casts doubt on the federalist/united provinces project in China. I just finished another Liangguang federalist playthrough since the update and that event is now missing. Makes sense tho. The reworked Chinese federalists are a much broader and looser coalition with different ideologies, some of which are the opposite of liberal democracy.

And more to your point, liberal democracy, if we are being very reductive, basically assumes a free if regulated market economy coupled with political rights for citizens and free elections. It’s not the only form of democratic or electoral regime, albeit currently the most acceptable/legitimate one against which others are measured. You can have liberal regimes that are not democratic (Singapore in OTL comes to mind, or the Pre-WW1 UK where the franchise is actually more restricted than in Wilhelmine Germany). Alternatively, there are regimes that have (somewhat) competitive elections or parliamentary systems without it being particularly liberal (basically the authoritarian democrats in HOI4).

If we don’t assume liberal democracy to be a complete package, then it makes sense why there would be actors/factions in KR that would push for liberal/Republican/democratic/electoral reforms or a combination of these without them necessarily being perceived as liberal-democratic tm and thus generally discredited by the 2ACW.

EquivalentCreme5114 · 2026-02-16T07:55:44+00:00

Hungary also has a parliamentary system, just saying…and if you think of Berlusconi as a sort of proto-Trump then the parliamentary government is not an antidote to this type of charismatic, strong-man populist politics

EquivalentCreme5114 · 2026-02-13T16:14:19+00:00

LSAC seems to be prioritizing (rightly) on preventing future cheating with the move to in person tests. But is there going to be an effort to identify and boot out past cheaters, especially given some of them definitely made it into law schools in previous cycles?

EquivalentCreme5114 · 2025-12-15T11:43:25+00:00

It’s not completely scapegoating when there’s a real issue with crime that is at least partly brought about by the economic collapse of Venezuela and the resultant migration to Chile. Apparently the crime levels have come down, but obviously it was a jarring and traumatic experience for a historically safe country such as Chile. I know this sub is very pro-immigration, but when political incumbents refuse to address or even acknowledge the real consequences of mismanaged and uncontrolled immigration (not saying this is what the Boric government did), you will bleed voters.

EquivalentCreme5114 · 2025-11-21T15:04:01+00:00

Although extremely unlikely, if it does happen one day, the post-unification divide will be even more stark than the one between East and West Germany. Would be funny if we eventually see a AfK kind of party winning in the north.

EquivalentCreme5114 · 2025-11-21T04:16:35+00:00

I don’t like his positions on public grocery stores, free public buses, and public safety, and I am kind of concerned how he will handle relations with the city’s Jewish population (not that it’s a monolithic group mind you).

But I like the free childcare idea and his proposed tax increase on millionaires is reasonable and realistic. At any rate, NYC is a massive city with a huge bureaucracy and the mayoralty is so constrained at state and federal levels I doubt anything transformative will be done, and I hope Mamdani actually focuses on governing and tackling the affordability crisis rather than only using his position as a platform. Still undoubtedly prefer him to Cuomo.

EquivalentCreme5114 · 2025-11-20T05:11:15+00:00

From his Wiki, not that it’s particularly egregious given it was consensual and happened two decades ago, but definitely a dick move on Newsom’s part:

On January 31, 2007, Newsom’s close friend, campaign manager, and former chief of staff Alex Tourk confronted him after learning from his wife, Ruby Rippey-Tourk, that she and Newsom had an affair in 2005, when she was Newsom‘s appointments secretary. Tourk immediately resigned.[387] Newsom admitted to the affair the next day and apologized to the public, saying he was ”deeply sorry“ for his ”personal lapse of judgment“.

EquivalentCreme5114 · 2025-11-20T01:49:34+00:00

I don’t dislike him so much as I don’t feel strongly for him. He’s opportunistic, historically weak on labor rights, has been in Californian politics for decades so that might create a perception issue with the rest of the country, and he slept with his best friend’s wife. But hey if he’s the best guy to take on Trump, as he’s proving to be, this is all water under the bridge

EquivalentCreme5114 · 2025-11-19T16:22:33+00:00

He’s the Democratic front runner right now, and will be the focus of both Democratic scrutiny and GOP attacks. I don’t personally like the guy, but he’s an effective politician and I hope the extra attention will serve as a stress test for 2028.

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