By Andy Hughes, LBC Crime Correspondent

It was at around 8.30am yesterday morning that my phone started pinging and ringing.

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Message after message, call after call, they were all from police officers.

And they were all furious. Firstly, at the utterly deplorable policing they witnessed in the bodycam footage of police disbelieving and arresting Henry Nowak as he lay before them. Dying.

In 20 years covering crime, I have rarely seen a policing failure as catastrophic and devastating as this.

But what motivated them to call me was when they heard Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, saying that police are told to treat people differently based on their ethnicity.

Every officer I spoke to - and I spoke with dozens over the course of yesterday - said this was absolute........

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