The LAPD's hired guns

by sarin Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2000 at 12:51 PM
sarin@devo.com

Some of the names of the officers who used paintball-pepperspray rounds at the fence prior to the mass police riot.

Hopefully Ill have video footage eventually that will upload correctly of this

But from recall, the 3 officers who fired excessive amounts of paintball and rubber rounds at the 2 who climbed atop the fence outside the Staples center to wave their flags.

I, without any real knowledge of proper police use of force can only guess that someone climbing a public fence to merely wave a flag does not deserve to be shot at point blank range with a paintball gun some 50-100 times. Then the people offerin water to these hapless but courageous souls were also repeatedly shot.

The 3 fronlie officers were Hooper (tall male), Diaz (short, stocky female) and Cochan (?) a medium height male.

From my viewpint Officer Diaz was the most trigger happy firing at least a full hopper full of ammo and then more after that. Which I'm guessing is a good 100+ rounds (been a while since I played paintball).

The officers (all corporal in rank) who held weapons had no badge numbers, only names sewn on their right chest pocket.

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