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(Bloomberg) — The US accused the UK of biased policing, endorsing a prominent hard right criticism of Britain’s law enforcement in an unusual intervention that underscores the growing rift between the two allies.
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“Ideological conditioning and two-tiered policing are glaring symptoms of civilizational decline,” the US State Department said late Thursday in a post on X in which it sent condolences to the family of teenage murder victim Henry Nowak, who was stabbed to death by a Sikh man last year. Body cam footage released this week show police handcuffing the dying Nowak after his killer falsely accused him of racial abuse.
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The post marks an extraordinary intervention by the UK’s closest ally in a case that sparked violent protests in the city of Southampton earlier this week, when activists on the hard and far right seized on the footage as evidence that police are racist against White people. Nigel Farage, the populist leader of Reform UK, said Britain was guilty of two-tier policing in the House of Commons on Wednesday, an intervention that drew sustained jeers from other Members of Parliament and a rejection by Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
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“I don’t recognize, as I’ve said, this caricature of Britain having a two-tier criminal justice system,” Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy told Sky News on Friday. “I think the vast majority of the public don’t recognize that.”
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Lammy, who also serves as justice secretary, said the US and UK continued to “have a close and special relationship.”
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The decision by President Donald Trump’s administration to weigh in on the case marks a further decline in relations between the two countries. Trump has repeatedly criticized the UK over its immigration and energy policies and free speech, often making misleading comments about the state of crime in London or the rise of “sharia law.”
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He has also clashed with Starmer over the UK’s decision not to provide further assistance to the US in its initial strikes against Iran, and over his own desire to take control of Greenland.
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Domestically, Trump has faced criticism himself for the actions of his Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who fatally shot two Americans earlier this year. Starmer said at the time that he was “concerned” about ICE, but declined to comment further.
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Earlier Thursday, Starmer accused Elon Musk of stoking unrest in Britain after the world’s richest man made a barrage of posts and reposts on X about the Nowak case, including saying official UK police policy requires officers to be racist against White people.
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“Musk again has been interfering in our politics in the last few days, trying to whip up division,” Starmer told reporters in northern England on Thursday. “That is not who we are in Britain.”
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