Police had responded to reports of an aggressive individual vandalising parked cars and a city bus.
Upon arrival, the suspect launched a machete attack on the officers. Police returned fire, critically wounding the man, who later died in hospital.
Dobrzyński used the incident to highlight a disturbing trend of racially motivated violence in Poland, committed not by migrants but by young Polish men.
Homegrown hostility, not foreign threat
"This post is dedicated to those who, through lies and manipulation, incite hatred against others," he wrote at the start of his statement on X (formerly Twitter).
In a separate case in Częstochowa, also in southern Poland, two Polish men were arrested for assaulting individuals from an African country.
“One of the attackers pulled out a knife and stabbed the foreigner in the chest,” Dobrzyński noted.
Elsewhere in Głogów, western Poland, two men in their twenties were detained after attacking a kebab shop owned by a Bangladeshi national.
Armed with a machete, the suspects smashed the doors, shattered three windows and threatened the owner with death.
“These are just the incidents of recent days,” Dobrzyński said, stressing that the threat to public safety is increasingly internal: “Quo vadis, Poland?” - Latin for “Where are you going?” - he asked pointedly.
The phrase, best known as the title of a novel by Polish Nobel Prize-winning author Henryk Sienkiewicz, evokes a moment of moral reckoning - a question of direction at a time of growing unrest.
Politics of fear on the march
As concerns rise over youth radicalisation and xenophobia, Poland’s populist right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party has sought to harness public anxiety for political gain.
Its leader, Jarosław Kaczyński, is reportedly planning a major anti-migrant rally this October - a move seen by critics as further stoking societal division rather than addressing its root causes.
Public resistance to such rethoric is also emerging. In the southwestern town of Bogatynia, local residents recently blocked a rally organised by far-right activist Robert Bąkiewicz, a figure known for his PiS-aligned views, signalling growing unease with nationalists mobilisation at the grassroots level.
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Source: X/@JacekDobrzynski/@culture_pl