Minister condemns riot but urges review of police anti-racism guidance following Henry Nowak death – UK politics live

Sarah Jones appeals for calm after rioting over the death of Nowak, who was handcuffed while dying from stab wound

In an interview on the Today programme, Sarah Jones, the policing minister, was also asked if she could confidently say there was no two-tier policing in the UK. She replied:

I would say that the principles are important, that everyone is equal under the law.

I would say that there are 100,000 999 calls a day and that in the majority of cases, the police are doing the right thing, making the right decisions in the right way.

We see examples of people making the wrong call in different ways. In the main, that is not what we see.

To push a certain sort of agenda in this case is not helpful.

I look at that footage and as a mother I find it almost impossible to see. I think everybody does.

I think everybody can’t understand what the response was. I think everybody has a degree of anger about it because it looks so wrong.

Silence, absolute silence, proof, if ever there was any, that we’re living in a two-tier culture in this country where the rights and privileges of white people matter less than those of ethnic minorities.

Enough of anti white prejudice a promotion of the idea that white lives matter just as much as black lives. An end to DEI [diversity, equity and inclusion] and positive discrimination, but a country that treats everybody equally and fairly before the law.

This is serious. This is urgent. I fear for where our society would be in a few short years if we don’t grip this and do it very, very quickly.