It Took Nearly 30 Years to Get The Truth
Liverpool Football Club (Liverpool FC) is a soccer (football) team that just banned The Sun newspaper from covering it. The paper is owned by Rupert Murdoch and is a vile tabloid famous for publishing photos of topless women on its page 3 en.wikipedia.org/....
The Hillsborough Disaster happened in 1989, but only now do we know how thoroughly the police lied about the victims in order to CYA. An inquest concluded in April of 2016. Here's what happened: thousands of people were funneled into standing room only audience pens with high fences. Eventually one of the fences gave way and 96 people died. Many were injured. A neutral description of the disaster (with photos) was published on the BBC after the inquest last April www.bbc.com/....
The best coverage of the lies is, as always, The Guardian's www.theguardian.com/...:
Bereaved families, survivors and supporters have never forgiven the Sun for its coverage four days after the disaster, in which it ran extremely damaging allegations about Liverpool supporters’ behaviour under the headline “The Truth”, which are now established to have been false, told by unnamed South Yorkshire police officers.
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It reported as fact a series of allegations made by unnamed South Yorkshire police sources, principally that some Liverpool supporters had attacked and urinated on “brave cops” as they attempted to save people, and that some supporters had stolen from dead bodies.
Lessons for Black Lives Matter
The families of the dead formed a pressure group which, according to The Guardian, accomplished this:
The Total Eclipse of The S*n‚ campaign was supported by the Hillsborough Family Support Group, and led to agreements by some retailers not to stock the paper, and to Liverpool city council supporting the wider boycott.
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Speaking in a personal capacity, Trevor Hicks, president of the HFSG, whose teenage daughters Sarah and Vicki were among the 96 killed, said: “The Sun’s coverage did enormous damage to me, [his then wife] Jenni and all the families and caused us great distress. We tried to contact the Sun many years ago; we asked them to name their sources for the scurrilous stories, but we never got that and we have never moved on since.
“We did not accept that the apologies they have made were genuine, and we support Liverpool football club banning the paper. All the 96 people who died supported Liverpool, Anfield is our spiritual home, and there was an element of the place being besmirched by the presence of the Sun.”
So here's the lesson. Fighting the coverups takes time. It takes a very long time. But when the families are relentless, the campaign will succeed. We live in times that are almost as dark as when Martin Luther King, Jr. said
How long? Not long because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. How long? Not long.
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Less famous, but equally significant right now is this quote:
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