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https://spectator.com/article/why-did-the-police-cuff-henry-nowak/

Even accepting that dealing with a street brawl at midnight is not easy when it is unclear who if anyone was in the right, this raises questions. If someone is weak and spurting blood, one might have thought that arresting them was fairly pointless. They are unlikely to go far, and the first priority should be to get them to a hospital. A general policy of arresting anyone who has been involved in a fight (no-one knows who to believe) is one thing. Not making an exception where one party is seriously injured and needs immediate help isn’t, shall we say, in the best traditions of policing.

But this may not be the real reason why the victim was arrested and handcuffed. There is a more worrying possibility, at least hinted at in the reports: that Nowak’s arrest was an immediate reaction to the suggestion that he had racially abused Digwa, and had this simply been a case of a person alleged to have started a fight he would not have been cuffed but simply rushed to hospital. If this is right, then the Hampshire Police have a serious case to answer, and not simply because their arrest of Nowak may have led to his unnecessary death.

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