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London's 2020 Moment and the Henry Noak Stabbing
from Backrooms, Spencer Pratt, & The D’Amelio Family Disaster | The Tim Dillon Show #498 · #498
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Tim reflects on his recent London trip, comparing it to America's 2020 reckoning, then introduces the story of Henry Noak, a young man stabbed by a Sikh man who was initially treated as the victim by police under 'two-tier policing' directives.
- England is cleaner than Newark, which looks like a third-world slum despite New York being his beloved city.
- London is having its own 2020 moment now, with migration issues, speech debates, and dueling protests between Tommy Robinson's anti-migration crowd and pro-Palestine immigration advocates.
- Henry Noak, an 18-year-old in Southampton, was stabbed by a Sikh man with a ceremonial knife.
- When police arrived, the Sikh claimed he was a victim of a hate crime while Noak said he'd been stabbed, and cops decided to cuff the kid who was bleeding out.
- Noak dies in handcuffs saying "I can't breathe," the same words George Floyd used.
- Police directives openly state they won't treat everyone equally, acknowledging past inequity and promising to "correct" it by considering historical context.
- Because of these equity-focused directives, when a white kid claims he was stabbed and a Sikh claims to be a hate crime victim, cops prioritize the latter's narrative instead of appraising the scene.
- Tim notes that applying complex historical analysis to crime scenes is beyond what police, who aren't the brightest people, are equipped to do.
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