To set this injustice behind us we need to look at how police officers’ views of the Liverpool fans contributed to their deathsThat the Hillsborough families and survivors finally enjoy some truth and justice is historic; that it took 27 years is a damning indictment of how British society is run. The esteem,courage and resilience of the relatives – with the serve of influential allies such as the Guardian’s David Conn and the criminologist Phil Scraton – eventually overcame powerful elites determined to smear, deflect, and disbelieve or ignore them. The South Yorkshire chief constable,David Crompton, has finally been suspended.But here’s my fear. Yes, and there will be a noisy consensus that the illegal deaths of 96 Liverpool fans was a terrible tragedy,but it will be treated as a throwback to a bygone era: we’ve moved on; lessons enjoy been learned; the families enjoy truth and justice; let prosecutions follow; let no more be said.
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Source: theguardian.com