Small demonstration outside Harlow police station
Crime / Thu 4th Jun 2026 at 10:00am
AT just after 6pm yesterday evening (Wednesday 3 June) a small protest was held outside Harlow Police Station.
An Essex Police spokesperson said: “Officers engaged with those gathered and worked to ensure there was minimal disruption to the work of the station itself or the wider public.
Around 30 people attended and the protest, which remained peaceful throughout, ended at just after 9pm.
There was no violence or disorder reported, and no arrests were made.
Jac
2026-06-04 11:36:30
Exactly what were they protesting about or was it just some idiots with nothing better to do?
Jay
2026-06-04 11:47:54
Just Farage groupies licking the windows
Adam
2026-06-04 12:08:23
People really have had enough of the UK establishment and paying for it to do everything but deliver. It is going to be an interesting few years.
Mike Harlow
2026-06-04 12:25:55
Drunk people wanting "are country back" no doubt.
David Forman
2026-06-04 12:36:49
Is the Editor skirting around the issue? As the blacksmith knows very well, you have to hit it while it's hot. Nigel Farage understands the need to hit it while it's hot to create division and "Cold Rage". The trade union backed Morning Star newspaper reported: "To say that the police privilege black people over white people is completely untrue. Research conducted by Inquest found that black people are seven times likelier than whites to die following restraint by police. See https://inquest.org.uk/news-and-comment/press-releases/police-racism-report-2023/ https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/confront-far-right-lies-about-two-tier-policing
Jane
2026-06-04 12:48:02
Only protester I can see is the rubbish bin !
Seamus
2026-06-04 13:29:33
Half a dozen protesters at the police station have the same rights as half a dozen protesters at a greyhound track trying to ban greyhound racing and half a dozen protesters protesting about gaza. They all have a right to do it, but they also have a right to look very silly doing it in a town of 94,000 people
Calvin Bassey
2026-06-04 14:07:38
So protesting against racism is only justified if the victim isn’t white. The left are a very strange bunch
Mike
2026-06-04 14:22:59
The death of Henry Nowak was such a horrific and awful one, and people are quite within their rights to protest. But certain right-wing politicians (Farage) and far-right agitators (Musk and "Robinson") want more than that and will attempt to use this horrific and senseless death to further their own political ambitions, ideology and (in the case of the latter) to increase their own finances. Protest's like this are something we all have the right to do. But to encourage "rage", violence and rioting is disgraceful. The politicians and far-right agitators need to listen to the family of that poor boy, who have dealt with this terrible tragedy and loss with dignity. They have called for unity and not division. Unfortunately, Farage and the like do not want unity, they want division and civil unrest. Shame on them.
Seamus
2026-06-04 15:08:32
Mike, you fallen into the establishment trap. For decades our political class has failed all of us and should anyone point that out, rather than take it on the chin and say fair cop, we got it wrong, they twist words, offer fake platitudes, say it will never happen again....until the next time and then the whole circus starts again. Faux grief, pay tribute to blah blah blah to a point they even forget who and what is going on. You don't have to like farrage or his party but his message is quite correct. Standing up and looking at the parties infront and around him, they have all failed us, This is genuinely, don't blame the messenger, blame the message. We had the same when the Manchester security guard said he thought the bomber was a wrong un but was to afraid to challenge him through fear of being called a racist. Politicians said we need to do something and they never did, nor did the police. They both learned nothing. They said the same at the Southport killings when some of the officials who knew the killer was a danger, were to afraid to say things through fear of being called a racist. Again politicians and police said they will look into it and learn, but nothing changed. Now with another race incident, the governments own advice that says not treat everyone equally but treat people differently based on cultural and racial differences. We also had the calocane murders where once again, officials, police and healthcare professionals were to afraid to make comments because of fear of being called racist and three people were killed and once again, politicians gave tributes, made promises of change so it can't happen again. However, now we have another where someone was killed and race was involved and once again we hear tributes, platitudes and promises of learning so it cant happen again. So when someone stands up in parliament and effectively says to the established parties, you did this and you never learn, you never learn instead of taking it on the chin, they would rather go after the person pointing out this continual cycle of never learning. The establishment are hiding behind the famillies sorrow to evade people looking at those who have failed the public year on year and never learn. They hear but they do not listen. Personally I don't care who points out to our politicall class that they have failed us but they need to be shamed for it because they never learn or change, because they don't want too.
Marie
2026-06-04 16:15:39
Well said Seamus
Bill Balls
2026-06-04 17:18:08
Not a brain cell between them. Why can’t these people see they are useful idiots to the rightwing power hungry politicians
jarrett
2026-06-04 17:22:41
David Forman, Why do you have to bring colour into it? this is from a forum and sums it up. No mate, we are not mad because the offender is a brown man. We are mad because a dying, immobile 18 year old was handcuffed to the rear after telling 4 Pc Plods 9 times that he couldn't breathe and 4 times that he had been stabbed. And as he lay dying amongst 4 people in a blue uniform who were sworn to their duty of the preservation of life, the last words he heard were "I don't think you have mate" followed by the criminal caution. That is why we are mad.
Mike
2026-06-04 18:27:49
Seamus. I don't disagree with you that that the political class have failed us. I don't disagree that that needs to be called out. I don't disagree that the police were completely and utterly wrong in this case and that the way that poor boy died shames us all. I don't disagree with people protesting against these failures. Things need to change. I do however disagree when members of the very same political class that have failed us, i.e Farage (who is just as much part of the establishment as other politicians), and people who monetise peoples anger - then use that anger to encourage violent protest and riots. Farage, Musk and "Robinson" have form - look at the terrible Southport murders and the riots that came after that. They all fanned the flames of those riots. Protest yes. Encourage violence and take part in violence no.
Mike
2026-06-04 18:39:30
Henry Nowak's family said that they did not want anger to "tear communities apart". They have asked that politicians work across political parties and religions to rebuild trust in the police. That seems a perfectly sensible way to resolve problems. Use the anger generated by this appaling crime to put things right. All politicians, the police and the community need to work together to solve these problems. Not fan the flames of the anger until the anger erupts into violence. Violent protests and attacking people just because they have the same colour skin or ethnicity as the murderer, is not going to solve anything.
Guy Flegman
2026-06-05 06:33:56
All I know is many areas of our society are not fit for purpose and this has largely come about as our politicians over the last 30 years have divided us into ever smaller easy to manage groups , leavings us fighting and distrusting each other. The only way to break this cycle is for people to unite a bit more in spite of the power brokers who have brought us here. Gove it a try
David Forman
2026-06-05 08:42:42
Dear Jarrett, as a qualified first-aider I am equally appalled that a police officer left an injured man to die. The issue of colour is relevant in both the perpetrator and victim in this incident. It is also a factor in society. How different groups are treated by the police, and this includes disabled people, has to be tailored to their particular needs. Hence why the College of Policing advice comes across as strange to most people. But if one thinks about it, one wouldn't apply the same mechanics of arrest and detention to a disabled person as to an able bodied person. Likewise, the black community, who suffer a disproportionate number of stop and searches have an immediate distrust of police officers and gaining their cooperation requires a different approach. The evidence, of which there is plenty and I have already quoted some, shows that ethnic minorities don't get the same criminal justice outcomes as white folks. For instance, black people are sent to jail far more often than white folks for the same crime in similar circumstances. Therefore, ethnicity, social status and health conditions are relevant to how the police deals with people. Having sat in Essex Police headquarters with officers and CPS officials dealing with hate crime gives me an inside perspective on this.
facts
2026-06-05 08:51:33
it speaks volumes that there is no anger towards the Sikh community, only towards the establishment. there is no racism here, the only racism in this case is from the establishment.
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