Daily News | Families of 11 people killed in the 1985 MOVE bombing never considered their deaths accidental. Now Pennsylvania officially agrees with them.
paperwork, the amended death certificates represent a step in the city’s longer journey to account for“The fact that it said ‘accident’ or ‘accidental’ is just insulting,” said Daniel Hartstein, the lawyer for Lionel Dotson, the North Carolina man whose sisters, Katricia, 14, and Zenetta, 12,The city requested the Pennsylvania Department of Health amend the death certificates’ cause and manner of death over the summer, officials said.
“I think the word that comes to the top of my head is, infuriating,” he said of the city’s handling of the tragedy’s aftermath.An explosive standoff, then decades of fallout The standoff ended when officers detonated an explosive on the roof, which started a fire that police allowed to burn, destroying blocks of rowhouses and displacing dozens of neighbors.that the 11 deaths were accidental, the result of smoke inhalation and thermal injuries.
report released this summer audited the “grossly inadequate investigation” conducted by the Philadelphia Medical Examiner’s Office after the bombing, and its mishandlingdescribed the police and MOVE members’ decisions that day as “horribly misjudged,” but not intended to kill.review called the children’s deaths a direct result of the actions of others, regardless of intent, and determined the adults’ deaths were likely also homicides.mean they were criminal, the recent report stated.
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