Elon Musk has called for justice to be ‘restored’ in Britain after a supermarket founder accused police of being more interested in bogus race claims than tackling shoplifters.
The billionaire owner of X waded into the row over police priorities after Iceland founder Sir Malcolm Walker claimed ‘two-tier policing isn’t just happening on the streets’.
On Sunday, the Mail revealed how officers rushed to one of his supermarkets within three minutes after a phoney claim of racism was made against a store supervisor.
The entrepreneur made a formal complaint to Scotland Yard after an Asian store supervisor was handcuffed and dragged to a police van by officers who rushed to the scene when a black customer made a false complaint of racism after being caught tampering with milk bottles on August 23, 2024.
In contrast, Sir Malcolm said police do not prioritise tackling shoplifting or violence against his staff.
Yesterday police took more than 10 minutes to respond to calls from an Iceland store in Timperley, Altrincham after a shop manager was slashed in the face with a Stanley knife.
Sir Malcolm said: ‘We have had a store manager stabbed in the face with a Stanley knife today and police are now there, but did they rush here in three minutes with blue lights flashing? No. Things need to change.’
Mr Musk, who is one of the world’s richest men, wrote on X: ‘Restore justice to Britain’ as he reposted comments about the Mail on Sunday article to his 240 million followers.
The billionaire owner of X (pictured) waded into the row over police priorities after Iceland founder Sir Malcolm Walker claimed ‘two-tier policing isn’t just happening on the streets’
Sir Malcolm said: ‘We have had a store manager stabbed in the face with a Stanley knife today and police are now there, but did they rush here in three minutes with blue lights flashing? No. Things need to change.’
His intervention comes days after Keir Starmer suggested the US is trying to interfere in British democracy following comments by US Vice-President JD Vance blaming the murder of the British teenager Henry Nowak on mass migration.
The prime minister’s office responded after the senior Republican politician claimed in a post on X that Nowak would be alive ‘if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it’.
Downing Street did not name Vance directly but said: ‘In recent days we have seen people trying to interfere in our democracy and seeking to stir up division on our streets.
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‘The Nowak family are grieving after Henry’s horrific murder. They have said they do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension. ‘We should be respecting their wishes.
‘Our politics should bring people together even in the most terrible of circumstances. That is who we are as a country.’
There has been a national outcry about Mr Nowak’s murder as footage showed police officers handcuffed him as he lay dying from stab wounds after his killer, Vickrum Digwa, had falsely accused him of racist abuse.
Digwa, a British-born Sikh, was convicted of murder and jailed for life with a minimum of 21 years.
The US state department, run by Marco Rubio, has portrayed the case as an example of the UK’s ‘civilisational decline’ posting on X: ‘Ideological conditioning and two-tiered policing are glaring symptoms of civilizational decline. 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.’
Sir Keir rejected the US state department’s characterisation of UK policing, telling LBC last week: ‘It is really important that we are very, very clear, policing without fear or favour, whatever anybody else says, and wherever they’re saying it from, whichever country in the world.’
