British police are facing a major backlash over the arrest of a white teenager seconds after he was harassed and assaulted by a group of black males.
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The incident, which happened June 21 outside a nightclub in Birmingham, England, was caught on video, and posted on social media, earlier this week.
The footage, taken by a YouTuber “Knockout Audit,” begins with a verbal altercation involving an allegedly drunk young man surrounded by a group of agitated black people and a white bystander.
As the teen was backing away from the encroaching mob, a black assailant threw him to the ground, and another black male took a swing at his head while he was on the ground.
Just as the young man was getting back to his feet, a female officer rushed in and slammed him against the wall.
Thinking he was still under attack, the teen took a defensive swing, before realizing it was an officer.
‘”Oy, oy, oy! he cried.
“Do not f-cking punch me boy!” the officer screeched. “Put your hands behind your back!”
Another officer can be seen in a longer video running up to his assailants and having a brief interaction with them before returning to help with the arrest. The footage then shows the group casually walking away in the distance.
As the officers were cuffing the teen, the bystander came forward, saying: “excuse me, they’ve got two of them on camera, so—”.
The boy at this point was in great distress, crying, “what the f-ck! I want to go home! Please, please, I want to go home!”
“Walk to the f-cking car, you dick!” the female officer hissed.
The rough treatment continued as a male officer bellowed “get in the f-cking car,” forcefully pushing the boy’s head down and shoving him into the vehicle.
The bystander gave a statement to police outside the vehicle.
“Someone clotheslined him,” the man said, referring to a wrestling move that involves hitting someone in the neck area with the inner arm and knocking him to the ground.
“Then someone hit him from behind and that’s when you went in,” the witness continued. “All I can say, is the defense was probably because he thought you were one of the attackers at that moment.”
“Okay,” the female officer responded. “Somebody assaulted him first?”
The entire incident can be viewed in the video below starting at 5:30.
Birmingham Police issued a statement Thursday describing the event as “a group of men fighting” and confirming that only the victim was charged.
“We are aware of footage showing the arrest of a man after a disorder on Broad Street at 1.30am on 21 June,” the police posted on X on July 2.
“Officers found a group of men fighting. As the incident was dealt with, an officer was punched. One man was arrested and charged with assaulting a police officer, the statement continued. “One man was arrested and charged with assaulting a police officer.”
In a follow-up post, the Birmingham Police said the incident had been reviewed, and “we have no concerns over the officer’s actions and we are satisfied that they were reasonable and proportionate in the circumstances.”
The department went on to ask that the footage not be “further shared to allow the legal process to take its course.”
The arrest has drawn comparisons to the December 2025 murder of Henry Nowak, an 18‑year‑old university student who was stabbed outside a pub in Southampton, England, by 23‑year‑old Vickrum Singh Digwa.
Upsetting police bodycam footage shows officers handcuffing Nowak as he lay dying from stab wounds.
The incident sparked public outrage, Parliamentary debate, and a wider discussion about “two tier policing,” in which law enforcement treats different groups unequally based on race or political affiliation.
In the West, the practice has led to ethnic minorities and left-wing demonstrators routinely receiving more lenient treatment compared to white people and conservative protesters.
The State Department issued a harsh rebuke of two-tiered policing last month amid outrage stemming from the enraging incident.
“Ideological conditioning and two-tiered policing are glaring symptoms of civilizational decline,” the State Department wrote Thursday in a viral post on X. “They must be rejected across the West. The United States sends our condolences to the family of Henry Nowak and the people of the United Kingdom at this troubling time.”
Vice President JD Vance piled on, stating that the incident proves that “western civilization is at risk.”
The fierce public backlash over Nowak’s murder was cited as a factor that contributed to the resignation of Prime Minister Keir Starmer on June 22, 2026.
The latest incident has sparked an outpouring of commentary from British media and politicians.
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Conservative British journalist David Atherton commented on X, Thursday: “Henry Nowak Mark II. A white man is set upon by some Africans & the West Midlands @WMPolice arrest him.”
They must have seen 👀 he was not the aggressor. In two-tier Britain 🇬🇧 claiming self-defense will be rejected, unlike the Manchester Airport scum.”
Member of Parliament (MP) James McMurdock also weighed in Friday, saying: “I can’t let this go unchallenged.”
“That young man was, in my opinion and based on the video … the clear victim of an assault,” he posted on X.
The video shows, for reasons that are entirely beyond my comprehension, the officer steaming directly into the victim.
The officer made no effort to prevent the attack or apprehend the men who had just administered the violence.
What I see in the video is the officer using speed and aggression at the moment of peak danger and confusion against the victim.
The victim then controls himself the moment he realises it is now a police officer attacking him and not one of the multiple men who were attacking him a fraction of a second earlier.
In my opinion Birmingham Police should drop the charges against this young man and ask the officer why she went for the victim on the ground and not the attackers!
According to Reform Party MP Robert Jenrick, Birmingham Police must follow a “Race Action Plan” that directs officers to not “over-police” black people.
“It says disparities in outcomes are problems ‘regardless of their causes,’” he explained on X. “If you tell your officers that, don’t be surprised when this happens.”
Former police officer and current Reform Party official Stuart Davies stated on X there needs to be “a thorough investigation” into the arrest and the officers’ conduct scrutinized.
“More evidence of two-tier policing against white people in Britain,” stated MP Nigel Farage, the leader of the Reform Party.
“This young man was attacked by ethnic minority men and instead of arresting them, the police arrested the victim. Only Reform will put an end to this.”
Restore Britain MP Rupert Lowe posted on X that he is “sick” of constantly seeing young white males being treated unfairly by law enforcement.
“Let’s be honest about what’s happening here – the entire British state is stacked against young white straight British men – all this protected characteristic bullshit. I am so sick of it,” he wrote.
Restore Britain will rip it out. That I promise you.
Burn the Equality Act. We will treat all equally. A black man will have no built-in advantages over a white man. That will end.
We will restore fairness.
The Equality Act is the most poisonous legislation and I will take immense joy in grounding it into dust.
Policing.
We have just published a 140 page policy document with fairness at the heart of it.
The DEI cancer will be surgically removed from the police force. If malign individuals continue to promote this political ideology, they will be sacked – even prosecuted where necessary.
Restore Britain is not just shouting into the sky about it – we have outlined exactly how we will fix it. In excruciating detail, step by step.
We are seeking the power to carpet-bomb DEI out of existence.
Because there is nothing wrong with being white. There is nothing wrong with being male. There is nothing wrong with being straight.
So when we see police officers treat young white men with an entirely different level of force and aggression compared to black men, I can say with absolute confidence that a Restore Britain Government will end that. Immediately.
Last month Lowe released his bombshell that revealed Pakistani grooming networks across the United Kingdom sexually abused at least 250,000 young, mostly white British girls between 1950 and 2025.
In his statement Friday, Lowe called DEI policies that lead to such outcomes “a racist infestation that must be removed.”
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“I detest it all so very much,” he concluded.
