Published: June 3, 2026 • 9:58 PM IST · Updated: June 4, 2026 • 12:34 AM ISTBy TheBriefWire Editorial Team
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A former police officer has been forced to flee to a safe space after she was falsely accused online of being involved in the arrest of Henry Nowak.
Christi Hill, who served as a police constable for 12 years, has criticised social media and AI platforms, including Elon Musk’s Grok, for spreading the false claim that she was one of the officers who arrested Nowak as he lay dying after being stabbed by Vickrum Digwa.
Hill and another officer have been wrongly identified online.
The home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, said on Tuesday that a male officer had been misidentified and that he had had to move out of his home.
Grok has falsely named Hill and the other officer as the “primary officers shown” in the bodycam footage released by Hampshire police.