Member of Parliament Says No Good Will Come From Sharing Video of Attempted Beheading

As our own Gordon K. reported earlier, with the United Kingdom still reeling over the bodycam footage of Henry Nowak bleeding to death while handcuffed on suspicion of "racist assault" against a Sikh carrying a ceremonial knife, a Senegalese man was arrested for attempting to behead a man in the street in North Belfast. As Gordon reported, Irish politicians responded with the Norm Macdonald meme, saying "the horrific scenes in North Belfast should not be used by English, right-wing politicians to further their own ends." As I reported the other day, The Economist warned of the "dangerous" rhetoric about anti-white prejudice in British politics. The Economist admitted that the real danger was that incidents like Nowak's helped Nigel Farage and his Reform UK Party in the polls.

🚨NEW: No 10 has called for "calm" after a migrant was arrested over an attempted beheading in Belfast
— GB Politics (@GBPolitcs) June 9, 2026

As always, the burden is put on British nationals to stop being angry about migrants terrorizing and attempting to brutally murder them https://t.co/Khd8Juei5J
— Sunny (@sunnyright) June 9, 2026

As another example, Claire Hanna is a Member of Parliament representing South Belfast, and she warns about sharing the video of the beheading attempt, saying that no good could come of it.

The violence in North Belfast was horrific, the video will create fear and shock. No good will come of sharing it or of turning on each other in this society, including for the clout of online voices who don’t know or care about us and who offer absolutely nothing for the future.
— Claire Hanna (@ClaireHanna) June 9, 2026

The problem isn't people sharing a video

The problem is a migrant tried to behead someone
— Lauren Chen (@TheLaurenChen) June 9, 2026

The video creates fear and shock because it's a video of something that actually happened
— Damien Slash (@damienslash) June 9, 2026

The British police held back the Nowak bodycam footage for fear of rioting.

Speaking of Norm Macdonald:

"I disagree. I thought it was the attempted beheading." pic.twitter.com/hlkHZUdKVn
— JamesX (@james_x75234) June 9, 2026

If you don’t have anything useful to add, sit this one out.
— Adam James Pollock (@AdamPollock) June 9, 2026

You are the embodiment of suicidal empathy.
— GayLumberjack (@gay_lumberjack) June 9, 2026

Oh no, we're not doing this crap. The British government allowed this man to come to Britain. It's both warranted and necessary to ask - who he was, what was he doing in Britain and why was such an individual allowed to be in the country.
— Sensei Seagal's body double (@mythPloughman) June 9, 2026

"Turning on each other"?
The people wanting to behead infidels and the indigenous people of the UK aren't on the same team.
— Bill Reynolds (@BillRey56576371) June 9, 2026

A man almost has his head cut off in public on the streets of Belfast and the first thing the leader of the SDLP does is not extend sympathy for the victim or condemnation of the attacker….instead just trying to stop people seeing what is actually happening on our streets
— Tom O’Hanlon (@TomOHanlon17) June 9, 2026

What is wrong with you? Does it even occur to you that your SELECTIVE queasiness over brutal honesty creates far more division than you seek to avoid?

There may be a universe in which diminishing/hiding/ignoring problems helps society but it’s not the one most of us share.
— Jan Brauner (@JaniceBrauner) June 9, 2026

The video will create fear and shock. We mustn't turn on each other in this society.