“I don’t recognize this caricature of Britain having a two-tier criminal justice system,” Lammy said Friday, emphasizing his belief that “everybody has got to be equal before the law, that is a fundamental concept in our Democratic settlement.”
The argument has also been staunchly refuted by Hampshire Police's Chief Constable Alexis Boon.
His killer, Vickrum Digwa, 23, was sentenced on Monday to a minimum of 21 years in prison. Police bodycam footage released earlier this week shows officers continuing to put Nowak in handcuffs despite his pleas that he was struggling to breathe and was injured. Digwa, who is Sikh, had told police he was a victim of a racist attack, an allegation that was later proved false.
“The United States sends our condolences to the family of Henry Nowak and the people of the United Kingdom at this troubling time."
In addition to Starmer and his ruling Labour Party pushing back against this assessment, the Liberal Democrats—the U.K.'s third largest political party—have called for U.S. ambassador Warren Stephens to be summoned.
TIME has reached out to the U.S. ambassador’s office for comment.
He claimed the country was living under “two-tier policing” based on ethnicity, having earlier said that “the fear of being called racist was greater than dealing with Henry Nowak’s murder.”
Starmer acknowledged there are “serious questions to answer, including how accusations of racism informed police thinking,” but insisted “exploiting this tragedy to create grievance and division would be wrong in any circumstances.”
The fallout over the police bodycam footage has stoked divisions, with tensions spilling out onto the street Tuesday night as violent protests erupted in Southampton.
The tech billionaire and X owner on Tuesday told his 240 million-strong following on X to send the bodycam footage “to everyone you know, showing how heinously Nowak was treated by the police in his dying moments and how the police cravenly kowtowed to his murderer.”
Starmer has accused Musk of "interfering in our politics” and “trying to whip up division.”
Lammy, meanwhile, argued Musk “should stay out of this complex, but painful situation.”
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