New Comment #3

13 09 2012

In the article, “Blood on our hands,” it discusses how 23 years ago a tragedy took place in the UK and many people died in the Sheffield stadium on April 15, 1989.  The families of the people that lost their lives that day had no answers for what happened to the members of their families that day.

Today, reports came out that days following that tragedy, police lied about not having anything to do with the reports that were being turned in.  This article states, “Up to 164 statements from officers were falsified or amended to shift blame from the police on to innocent supporters, with 116 having potentially damaging comments deleted.”

The rest of this article talks about how the families are relived to finally have answered to what happened to their loved ones on that day.

This article is news because I’m sure they are following up on something that was reported for days or maybe even months after the incident happened. I am curious however what actually happened. I thought if the author of this piece would have even given a summary of what happened 23 years ago, it would have made things a lot more clear for the reader. Even though this isn’t something that happened in the United States, I think it still interreges people due to the fact that law enforcement messed with evidence to a tragedy.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/hillsborough-cover-up—how-1322011

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13 09 2012
  fuglsang (21:29:49) :

It’s definitely a thorough story, but you’re right that it’s written for an audience that likely knows much of the background. I’m more curious why this is just coming out now. Did a police officer come clean? The story also suggests that Margaret Thatcher was part of the cover-up. Now that she’s dead, maybe things are coming out.