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sam cooley ๐๏ธ๐ง ๋ฆฌํธ์ํจ
sam cooley ๐๏ธ๐ง ๋ฆฌํธ์ํจ
sam cooley ๐๏ธ๐ง ๋ฆฌํธ์ํจ
sam cooley ๐๏ธ๐ง ๋ฆฌํธ์ํจ
sam cooley ๐๏ธ๐ง ๋ฆฌํธ์ํจ

Re: that statement by South Yorkshire Police Federation which represents all constables, sergeants, inspectors and chief inspectors within South Yorkshire Police. Policing of games has changed hugely, SYP has obviously changed hugely in personnel and there are doubtless conscientious people there who must be horrified at the content and tone of the Federation statement but clearly, sadly, shamefully, some of the old culture remains.
A read through and reaction to the statement which beginsโฆ
โSouth Yorkshire Police Federation is aware of todayโs Independent Office for Police Conduct report into the Hillsborough disaster. The report is a significant waste of taxpayers' time and taxpayers' money.โ How heartless and offensive. The Federation should have started its statement with a show of compassion and contrition to the grieving families of the 97 people who died in the Hillsborough disaster.
As for "taxpayers' money", people want to know their taxes are spent on police keeping people safe, not putting them at risk. It's not a โsignificant wasteโ of money to have โfundamental failuresโ (IOPC words) of the police highlighted by a watchdog and naming those who failed in their duties.
โIt is not fair or balanced.โ Whatโs โnot fairโ is that the police tried to blame the victims in 1989. Whatโs โnot fairโ is that the families have had no justice. Itโs also insulting to the IOPC which spent 13 years on the 366-page report.
โFormer police officers - some of whom are very elderly and some who have sadly passed away - do not have any kind of due process or the ability to formally respond to the allegations made in this report.โ How callous. Try repeating that line about police officers โsome who have sadly passed awayโ to the Hillsborough families still grieving the loss of loved ones. Was similar sympathy accorded them? No. The families were treated disgracefully after Hillsborough.
โThese are opinions of the IOPC essentially being dressed up as statements of almost fact. We emphasise that these are just allegations. Our former colleagues do not have and have not had the right to reply to any accusations.โ Stop digging. Were the Hillsborough families given the right to reply to police falsehoods? IOPC reported that 100 more police officer statements after Hillsborough were found to have been amended, making it a total of 327 police officer statements amended. Cover-up writ large.
โThey should not face trial by media.โ Try telling that to the families who endured trial by sections of the media after Hillsborough.
โIt is with this context that we should rightly question the value of this much-delayed report and its multi-million pound cost to the public purse.โ Again, thoughtless. Judging by this statement, the Federation focuses on time and money. The families focus on justice.
โThis report doesn't help anybody involved in the Hillsborough disaster.โ How dare those representing the police presume they โ of all people โ know what would help the bereaved families? Brave relatives campaign in the memory of their lost loved ones. They are trying to ensure this country never endures a disaster like this again and that the follow-up cover-up is never repeated. Full police accountability would help the families.
This report underlines the importance of the Hillsborough Law which involves โa legal duty of candour on public servants and providing legal aid for victims of state-related deaths and disasterโ, the Government says.
The final line of the SYPF statement readsโฆ โOur thoughts remain with all those affected by this terrible tragedy.โ Finally. If the Federation had just released this short sentence, and deleted all the preceding self-serving, offensive words, its statement wouldnโt have been so widely criticised. #LFC
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@BBCSport Donโt sell kits for ยฃ90 and people wonโt turn to counterfeits.
Donโt charge people over ยฃ100 a month to watch football and they will stop using firesticks.
Donโt charge people ยฃ70 for a match ticket and they wonโt go to non league.
Football for the fans not the billionaires ๐
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Probably my favorite reunion video ๐
Childhood friends Guy Gilboa-Dalal and Evyatar David were taken hostage together from the Nova festival on October 7. They were held together for months, but eventually separated. In August, Hamas released a video showing Evyatar emaciated and forced to dig his own grave.
Both young men returned home today and their reunion is pure joy ๐ฅน
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Charlieโs parents donโt speak publicly and itโs weird. Charlieโs wife does speak publicly and itโs weird. Some people on this site are determined to have a problem with the way Charlieโs loved ones grieve no matter what. And that is whatโs actually weird.
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Itโs still weird to me that we havenโt heard anything from Charlie Kirkโs parents
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