UK Cops Arrest Dying Teen Stabbed By Indian

London: The body camera footage showing British police putting handcuffs on a dying teenager — after he was stabbed by an Indian-origin Sikh man who lied to police at the scene, claiming he had been the victim of a racist attack — has sparked outrage across the United Kingdom over lapses in policing, race and knife crime. The now-viral video shows 18-year-old Henry Nowak repeatedly telling police, “I can’t breathe”, as he lies mortally wounded on a pavement on a residential street in the southern England coastal city of Southampton.

The clip also shows officers dismissing Nowak when he said that he had been stabbed. In the video, Nowak is seen lying on his back, telling police he had been stabbed as they grabbed his wrists and tried to make him sit up. He repeatedly said he couldn’t breathe. “You’ve been stabbed? Whereabouts?” an officer said in the video. “Don’t think you have, mate.”

The footage has been released by the police, with the permission of Nowak’s family, after his attacker, Vickrum Digwa, 23, was sentenced to life with a minimum of 21 years in prison in the UK earlier this week.