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5 min readHow a False Racism Claim Led Police to Handcuff a Dying Stabbing Victim
On December 3, 2025, 18-year-old Henry Novak, a finance student at the University of Southampton, was stabbed multiple times with an eight-inch blade by Vikram Digwa. When police arrived, Digwa told officers that Novak—the white victim bleeding on the pavement—had assaulted him for racist reasons. The officers believed the attacker. They handcuffed Novak as he lay dying, audibly saying "I can't breathe" on body camera footage. They did not handcuff Digwa. They did not handcuff him when transporting him to the station either. As Novak's father later testified in court, his son's murderer "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 Vikram Digwa himself told the court whilst under arrest for Henry's murder, police even took him to the kitchen so he could choose his food."
The Mechanism: Weaponized Anti-Racism
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- 1 (01:00) **Introduction: The Henry Novak Case** - Shapiro frames the episode around the murder of 18-year-old Henry Novak in the UK, where police handcuffed the white victim while believing the attacker's false claim of racism.
- 2 (02:48) **The Mechanism: Weaponizing Anti-Racism** - Shapiro argues that the police acted based on a systemic incentive to believe allegations of racism at face value, creating a perverse "get out of jail free card" for criminals.
- 3 (12:01) **The Philosophical Frame: The Paradox of Tolerance** - Shapiro invokes Karl Popper to explain how Western societies are being destroyed by their own values, as intolerance is weaponized against the tolerant.
- 4 (15:27) **Case Study: Hassan Piker and Chank Wiegers** - Shapiro discusses the UK banning two American influencers, framing their outrage as a tactic of using liberal principles to attack the West.
- 5 (23:37) **The Russian Op: Influencers as Propaganda Tools** - Shapiro describes the Kremlin's strategy of inviting American influencers to Russia to generate pro-Russian content, using free speech as cover.
- 6 (29:45) **Bernie Sanders and the AI Seizure** - Shapiro attacks Senator Bernie Sanders' proposal for a 50% public ownership tax on AI companies, calling it a communist seizure of private property.
- 7 (36:00) **The Radical Left: Graham Platner** - Shapiro covers the scandals surrounding Democratic candidate Graham Platner, including a Nazi tattoo, sexting scandals, and pro-Taliban posts.
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A shocking stabbing in the UK lights the internet on fire – and raises questions about the weaponization of tolerance; Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur find themselves on the outs with the British government; and Pride Month is back with a vengeance.
Ep. 2436
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