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• Nowak family say police failed them multiple times

  Relatives of Henry Nowak revealed in a documentary that officers initially portrayed the fatally injured student as the aggressor and concealed that they handcuffed him as he lay dying. Body-worn video also captured an officer dismissing the Essex teenager's pleas that he had suffered knife wounds. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Chief Constable Alexis Boon formally apologized, admitting the force failed to protect Nowak during the fatal encounter.

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