{"id":623783,"date":"2026-06-06T03:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T03:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/623783\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T03:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T03:32:14","slug":"u-k-government-pushes-back-as-trump-admin-wades-into-political-row-over-murdered-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/623783\/","title":{"rendered":"U.K. Government Pushes Back as Trump Admin Wades Into Political Row Over Murdered Student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">The fallout over the police bodycam footage has stoked divisions, with tensions spilling out onto the street Tuesday night as violent protests erupted in Southampton.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">The online discourse surrounding the tragic case has also become increasingly charged, with high-profile figures such as Elon Musk criticising the actions of the police.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">The tech billionaire and X owner on Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/2061809366546997488\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow\">told<\/a> his 240 million-strong following on X to send the bodycam footage \u201cto everyone you know, showing how heinously Nowak was treated by the police in his dying moments and how the police cravenly kowtowed to his murderer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/2062062058376663408\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow\">He also claimed<\/a> \u201cthe West has created an utterly evil state religion\u201d in which an accusation of racism \u201cis the gravest offense that can be committed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Starmer has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reels\/DZKq_W5RIqS\/\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">accused<\/a> Musk of &#8220;interfering in our politics\u201d and \u201ctrying to whip up division.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">\u201cThat is not who we are in Britain,\u201d he said. \u201cIn Britain, we are reasonable, tolerant people. When we have a terrible case, like Henry&#8217;s case, we react calmly, as his family have done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fallout over the police bodycam footage has stoked divisions, with tensions spilling out onto the street Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,595,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-623783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-news-desk","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}