The panel headed by the Bishop of Liverpool has said that Yorkshire police lied about the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, in which dozens of Liverpool football fans were crushed to death by other Liverpool football fans pushing their way into the ground for an FA match.
It may well be that the police did not do a very good of policing on that day. And that they exaggerated the extent to which the fans who did the pushing had been drinking. And that they tried to cover up their own failings. All very regrettable, and the Prime Minister has apologised to the family of the dead.
But. But. It was not the police who did the pushing or the crushing. Continue reading
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