Hillsborough disaster

The Hillsborough Disaster-15 April 1989

The Hillsborough Disaster has recently had its 23rd anniversary. The deaths of 96 innocent football fans that day have impacted so many people around the world. I'm not going to type the details of what happened that day, rather give my opinion on the cover up done by the South Yorkshire police.

The fact that the truth has laid dormant for so long is something that really puzzles me. How could something this big simply be completely twisted and hidden from public viewing for so long? I know for a fact that some hatred towards Liverpool fans has come because of this cover up and I expect it has affected a lot more people than some expect. I honestly thought the accusations from the police were ridiculous, how the newspapers could run such an article is really stupid. Looting from corpses? Urinating on police officers and the dead? Even video clips from the disaster show people desperately trying to get out and in every interview there seems to be no evidence of the interviewee's being drunk, like was accused by the police.

I'm rambling a bit, but I think this is a completely ridiculous cover up by the police, the supposed defenders of society, what kind of an example does their behaviour set to others? If your police are breaking the law why shouldn't you? I honestly can't believe the injustice towards these Liverpool fans who have had to live in the torment of the fact they have been blamed for these people's deaths. At least the truth has surfaced now, better late than never, i suppose.