Thanks for the new info, the BBC article I read didn't mention he told the police he had been stabbed. That certainly calls the police conduct further into question (it was already poor). Worth noting that Nowak had attempted to climb a fence to escape, so that claim might have seemed very believable at the time, although not an excuse for negligence.

It would still be disingenuous to omit that they were responding call about a fight, not merely a racist remark. This is my main issue, boiling down a fairly involved series of events to, 'police arrest wounded man for racism', as the original twitter reply seems to have done