"The Hillsborough-style inquiry will examine how 6,000 police officers were deployed to a picket at Orgreave coking plant three months into a National Union of Miners strike over planned pit closures."
"About 8,000 miners and their families were on the receiving end of what was described as heavy-handed policing, with witnesses detailing how mounted police charged at the pickets and hit them with batons."
"The moral injury that the injustice caused in the minds of South Yorkshire miners and wider working-class communities was the lasting effect, particularly influenced by the media narrative shaped by the government."
"Ninety-five miners were charged with rioting, but the case collapsed after the police's evidence was found to be unreliable and, in some instances, fabricated, leading to mistrust in authorities for generations."
A public inquiry into the 1984 Orgreave clashes will allow former miners to finally share their experiences after decades of silence. The inquiry, led by Pete Wilcox, aims to help South Yorkshire move on from the events of June 18, 1984, when thousands of police confronted striking miners. Heavy-handed policing resulted in injuries and a lasting moral injury within the community. The inquiry will also address the collapse of charges against miners, which were based on unreliable police evidence, fostering mistrust in authorities that persists today.
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