US slams 'two-tier' UK police as Trump's officials wade into Henry Nowak murder scandal
The Trump administration has entered the argument engulfing British politics after the student's murder in Southampton
Donald Trump's State Department has waded into the Henry Nowak murder case, slamming "two-tier policing" in Britain.
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The US's State Department has sent its condolences to the Nowak family, while saying that "two-tiered policing" was a "symptom of civilisational [sic] decline".
The accusation that British police are biased against white people is one that has been made by right-wing commentators and politicians in the UK in recent years.
Reform leader Nigel Farage and some within the Conservative party have suggested that Mr Nowak's Sikh killer was treated as a victim when police arrived at the scene, and this led to the delay in the student receiving medical treatment for a stab wound.
In shocking bodycam footage released on Monday, a police officer was heard telling Mr Nowak, 18, "I don't think you have mate," when he told them he had been stabbed.
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He was then arrested and handcuffed over the false allegations of racial abuse reported by his killer, Vickrum Digwa, 23.
"Ideological conditioning and two-tiered policing are glaring symptoms of civilisational decline," the State Department said in a statement on social media.
"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."
Violent protests erupted near where the 18-year-old was fatally stabbed, amid an outcry over his treatment.
Trump himself has made a habit of interfering in UK politics in recent months.
The president repeatedly called on Sir Keir Starmer to drill in the North Sea, told the PM that he is "no Winston Churchill", and slammed the UK's immigration policy.