"Crucially, police have always claimed victims of the disaster died almost instantly in the crush that forced the FA Cup game’s end at 3.06pm."
"They used that as the excuse for allowing only one of 45 ambulances on to the pitch to help victims. And the coroner Dr Stefan Popper brought in a “cut-off” point, ruling that all the victims were dead by 3.15pm."
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So are we to assume from these words that the police perspective is that at 315pm they made an assessment that 96 people were already deceased, and that it would be pointless bringing on ambulances to treat the other many hundreds who had suffered injuries.
We all of course know the truth.
On the day the police were so poorly disorganised that they were still responding to the crisis as if it was a crowd control issue until well after 330pm. They were doing as much harm in preventing people from getting medical assistance as what good the fans were doing in trying to get medical assistance to the dying and the injured. In other words, everything that was done by the vast majority of police was counter productive to saving lives.
This is not to blame the vast majority of police, because it was a leadership issue, and by all accounts there were a minority of police who when realising what was happening did render assistance. The Taylor report summed it all up perfectly, when he wrote "Duckenfield FROZE"
The failure to get those 46 ambulances onto the pitch is only one of the several mistakes that were made on that day, and who knows how many of those lives could have been saved if they had of been efficently mobilised into the correct area. (on the pitch)
This admission from a policewoman is of course no surprise to us all, because there were thousands of first hand witnesses who saw what went on and gave many accounts of people who died much later than the 315pm cut off. The fact that men in dark coats went to the trouble of using stand over tactics to try and cover up these facts are really damning evidence that there were a lot more than one or two officers involved in the conspiracy of lies. It is not too late for people to be prosecuted for these lies and cover ups, but as one of the survivors has said on the matter.
"there are too many people with too much to lose"
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