Newly released body-worn camera footage shows police initially taking several minutes to realise 18-year-old Henry Nowak had been stabbed during his arrest. One outlet reports that when Nowak appears to indicate he has been stabbed, an officer responds asking where the wound is and questioning whether he has actually been stabbed. The footage also shows the officer handcuffing Nowak while the situation escalates, before the officer recognizes the seriousness of the injury and begins to locate the stab wound.
Both reports describe a roughly eight-minute delay between Nowak raising the issue of being stabbed and police identifying the wound. They characterize the footage as highlighting confusion and a lack of immediate recognition of the injury’s location. The accounts focus on officer reactions captured in the cameras and do not provide details of the underlying cause of the arrest or the full medical outcome in the excerpts provided.
The reports agree that the footage has prompted renewed scrutiny of the police response time and communication during the arrest.
