{"article":{"id":1210,"heading":"The trigger-happy three LAPD at the fence","author":"sarin","created":"2000-08-16 13:33:47","modified":"2000-08-16 13:47:09","last_modified":"Wed, 16 Aug 2000 20:47:09","article":"

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.<\/p>\n","contact":"sarin@devo.com","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"The names of the 3 LAPDofficers who fired the most at the Staples Center fence - prior to the larger police riot.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2000\/08\/1210.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}