Hillsborough: Finally the truth is out

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The Hillsborough football tragedy is one of the worst sporting disasters in the world and finally the truth is out there. It was also the biggest police cover up in British history. The families have fought for justice for 23 years and this week the independent Hillsborough Report was released exonerating Liverpool fans who had been blamed and proving once and for all that the police were entirely responsible for the 96 deaths and 766 injured. (Something Liverpudlians knew all along)

- 164 police statements significantly altered
- ambulances prevented by the police from getting to the sick and dying
- false information being fed to the press by senior police officers and MPs
- alcohol tests being done on children who died
- police records checks on the dead to slur them
- coroner false saying they all died in the crush when the evidence says 41 could have survived if the ambulances had admitted

So now we wait for prosecutions for manslaughter, perverting the course of justice and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.

The Hillsborough Report: http://hillsborough.independent.gov.uk/ ... report.pdf

Docu-drama of the Hillsborough disaster based on eye witness statements and court transcripts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ9vpcTaL4A

Prime Minister's statement to Parliament informing them of the contents of the Hillsborough Report and public apolgising to the families for the disgrace: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vMI1ot20hg

You'll never walk alone.

I'm always amazed at some of the antics that goes on at such events in the British Isles and on Continental Europe.

In the US, sporting events often have a good number of fans from each side mixed together without much problem.

This wasn't anything to do with fans behaviour or whether they were mixing with the other side. That's the whole point. It was a complete failure of the police to correctly manage 25,000 people in one place at one time and their subsequent attempts to cover up their failings.

They divided the stadium into two and had the Nottingham Forest supporters at two sets of stands and the Liverpool supporters at the the other sets of stands. Though there were more Liverpool supporters they were put in the smaller part of the stadium with the fewer turnstiles because they didn't want them to mingle at all, they came from different directions. They found that they would have to delay the start of the match because if would take too long for the Liverpool fans to get in so instead they opened a gate and effectively they guided them to the middle pens whilst the side ones were not filled so that caused a crush there; they also should have had people to stop the movement of people when they found that something was amiss and they did not do that either. There was an obsession with preventing the supporters of rival sides mingling which was one reason why the emergency services did not do their job.

Here in the United States, it is quite common for fans from different teams to sit pretty much side by side.

Let us not forget the role that The Sun played in this--not merely standing behind the police, but publishing stories that were fabricated whole cloth. And printed under the banner headline, "The Truth," which would be laugh-out-loud hilarious were it not for the fact that it sought not only to absolve those whose incompetence led to 96 deaths and over 700 injuries, but sought to demonize the victims of that incompetence.

Much of the truth of the disaster was kept from public scrutiny for over two decades because of initial public sentiments created through the efforts of at least one Conservative MP and local police authorities with the complicity (whether conscious or incompetent) of a major national newspaper.

I thought this was going to be related to Tampa, FL.