The Bloody Sunday families have been left “disappointed” after the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) decided against prosecuting 16 individuals for perjury.
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Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Selma, Alabama, on Sunday to commemorate the 59th anniversary of a landmark civil rights moment. Harris will speak as part of the annual remembrance of “Bloody Sunday,” on the bridge where, on March 7, 1965, white state troopers attacked Black voting rights marchers attempting to cross. The images of violence at the Edmund Pettus Bridge — originally named for a Confederate general — shocked the nation and helped galvanize support for passage of the Voting Rights Act, which struck down impediments to voting by African-Americans and ended all-white rule in the American South.
Vice President Harris will travel to Selma, Ala., on Sunday to mark the 59th anniversary of Bloody Sunday and outline the Biden administration’s focus on civil rights. Harris, who marked the Bloody Sunday anniversary in Selma in 2022, will return to Alabama as the state makes national headlines for a court ruling that could have…
SDLP leader Colum Eastwood said “common sense has prevailed” after a decision not to prosecute him for walking with the Bloody Sunday families to court.
Colonel Derek Wilford, who has died aged 90, had a distinguished career in the Army, serving at various times in Malaya, Cyprus and Anguilla, but his name will for ever be associated with the events of “Bloody Sunday”, when he was CO of the 1st Battalion of the Parachute Regiment (1 Para), some of whom opened fire in the Bogside area of Londonderry on January 30 1972, killing 14 unarmed civilians and wounding 14 others.