Konstantin Kisin

What is particularly striking about this case is the way it mirrors almost exactly the injustice that movement was supposedly designed to prevent.

George Floyd died saying, I can't breathe, while a police officer knelt on his neck.

Henry Novak died saying, I can't breathe, while police officers knelt on his back and handcuffed him.

The British establishment that wept for Floyd has been conspicuously quiet about Novak.

The politicians who marched through London streets in 2020 have not rushed to the cameras.

The corporations that changed their logos and funded diversity initiatives have not issued statements.

This is not an accident or even a surprise.

It's the logical consequence of an ideology that does not actually oppose racism.

It simply reassigns its acceptable targets.

I want to be precise here because precision matters.

I'm not saying that the officers who attended the scene that night are bad people or that they set out to let Henry die.

I believe, in fact, the opposite, that they were following the spirit of their training and of the culture that had been built around them, in good faith, over many years.

The problem is not the individuals.

The problem is the system that produced them.

a system that taught them, in effect, that an allegation of racism is a trump card that overrides normal investigative procedure, normal medical common sense, and normal human judgment.

That system was built with the best of intentions by people who genuinely wanted to address real injustices.

And it has produced a policing culture in which a killer can stab a teenager five times, claim to be the victim of racism, and watch the officers handcuff the person bleeding out on the street.

They will not acknowledge what they've built.

They will say that this was an isolated failure of individual officers, not a systemic problem.

They will say that raising this case is itself a form of racism,