{"article":{"id":1195,"heading":"The LAPD's hired guns","author":"sarin","created":"2000-08-16 12:51:41","modified":"2000-08-16 15:33:32","last_modified":"Wed, 16 Aug 2000 22:33:32","article":"<p>Hopefully Ill have video footage eventually that will upload correctly of this <br>  <br> 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. <br><br> 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. <br><br> The 3 fronlie officers were Hooper (tall male), Diaz (short, stocky female) and Cochan (?) a medium height male.   <br><br> 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). <br><br> The officers (all corporal in rank) who held weapons had no badge numbers, only names sewn on their right chest pocket.<\/p>\n","contact":"sarin@devo.com","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Some of the names of the officers who used paintball-pepperspray rounds at the fence prior to the mass police riot.","numcomment":2,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2000\/08\/1195.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":1238,"heading":"Hurrah for the LAPD!","article":"LAPD = 53\r\nProtestor Assholes  = 0\r\nMummia = Mummy\r\n\r\nThe game is still in progress...  The clock is ticking...\r\n","author":"Mr D Gates","parent_id":1195,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2000-08-16 15:32:46","modified":"2000-08-16 15:45:32","fileurl":""},{"id":1239,"heading":"All power to the people!","article":"Transform Mumia into a Mummy!","author":"Huey P Newton","parent_id":1195,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2000-08-16 15:33:32","modified":"2000-08-16 15:45:38","fileurl":""}]}