The New Yorker has provoked fury by republishing a picture showing people being crushed against a fence at Hillsborough on the day an inquest into the 1989 tragedy found that 96 people were unlawfully killed.
The black and white picture, which was used to illustrate a 2011 article about crowd control, was posted to the New Yorker’s Twitter account – which has more than 6.3 million followers – on Tuesday.
It came just hours after the jury delivered the verdict in which they listed a catalogue of errors by police and ambulance services that led to the disaster.
The New Yorker was condemned by Twitter users, with some describing the tweet as “insensitive” and calling for it to be removed. Others lambasted the New Yorker for apparently trying to cash in on the end of the two-year inquest.
@NewYorker 96 people were unlawfully killed at Hillsborough. Today's verdict is not a hook for your irrelevant piece about crowd control.
— Anna Wood (@annawoodyes) April 26, 2016
.@NewYorker .@jmseabrook Insensitive mis-use of Hillsborough disaster - for which police were to blame - as example of mere crowd problems
— Sarah Deibler (@sarahmdeibler) April 26, 2016
@NewYorker @jmseabrook no newspapers in the UK use photographs taken so close to what happened now.
— Ursula Doyle (@suladoyle) April 26, 2016
@NewYorker @jmseabrook remove that photograph, those people died. Completely inappropriate image to post.
— Ian Baddiley (@Ianbaddiley) April 26, 2016
.@NewYorker @jmseabrook Really? You decided to post that picture, today of all days?
— Jeremy Millar (@jeremy_millar_1) April 26, 2016
@NewYorker @jmseabrook fucking hell, take down that photo.
— Mark Allison (@marka17) April 26, 2016
@NewYorker Crass and insensitive.
— Paul Graham-Sharples (@Paul_Sharples) April 26, 2016
The tweet has since been removed.
The New Yorker did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
