JD Vance makes Henry Nowak statement as student ‘died the same way a civilization dies’

The death of student Henry Nowak has caused outage in the UK after bodycam footage showed how he was treated, and now US vice president JD Vance has weighed in on the incident

US vice president JD Vance said Henry Nowak would still be alive if Europeans had “stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants”.

The 18-year-old student was handcuffed by police officers who ignored his pleas that he had been stabbed as he lay dying after his killer, Vickrum Digwa, claimed to have been the victim of a racist attack.

Vance said the response to Henry Nowak’s death should be “righteous anger”, adding the student died “the same way a civilization dies”.

He said on X: “Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit. His murder is as tragic as it is enraging. He should still be alive today, and he would be if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it.

“Henry was far from the first to so needlessly lose his life, and I fear he won’t be the last. Each time a life like his is lost, the proper response — the only response — is righteous anger. One of the most important things the Trump administration has proven to the world is that stopping the flow of mass migration and defending national sovereignty is a matter of political will and leadership. Anything else is an excuse.

“It is because we love the West that we want to preserve it. We love our civilization. We love our country. We love our children. And nobody — nobody — should ever die the way that Henry Nowak died. May God comfort those who loved him, and may God rest his soul.”

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