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Badenoch Apologizes for Bloody Sunday Video

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Kemi Badenoch, UK Tory leader, apologizes for using Bloody Sunday footage in a social media video to defend veterans from Labours Troubles legacy plans. The video, which hit her channels on Tuesday, was criticized for hyping British soldiers with imagery of the 1972 massacre. The bill, which scraps the old Tory law and restarts inquests and civil suits, was called shocking by SDLP MP Colum Eastwood. Badenoch blames young staffers for not spotting the Bloody Sunday shots.

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Badenoch Apologizes for Bloody Sunday Video

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UK News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now!Badenoch Apologizes for Bloody Sunday Video. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.

On May 2nd, Kimmy Botanock, the Tory leader, just apologized for a social media video that used Bloody Sunday footage to defend UK veterans from, Labor's new troubles, legacy plans. The clip hit her channels on Tuesday, slamming a bill that could pull veterans back into court over Northern Ireland cases from decades ago. Botanock says she never approved it, blamed some young staffers who didn't spot the Bloody Sunday shots. The column eastwood, the SDLP MP from Derry, called it shocking to high British soldiers with that massacre imagery. Bloody Sunday happened on 30 January 1972, when parachute regiment troops fired on unarmed marchers in the bogside, killing 13 on the spot and a 14th man months later. Labor's bill scraps the old Tory law, which got struck down in Belfast High Court this year. It restarts inquests in civil suits frozen before, after the only charged soldier, soldier F, got acquitted in a judge-only trial last year.

Victims push for years until the 2010 inquiry deemed the shootings unjustified, prompting David Cameron's deep apology for our forces. Wrongs. Botanock pulled the video fast once they clocked the mistake, but it stirs up those raw trouble scars all over again.

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