Posted on 02/11/2012 8:54:13 AM PST by Smogger
A veteran Orange County sheriff's deputy feared for the safety of two young girls sitting in a parked car when he shot and killed a Marine sergeant in a dark high school parking lot, authorities said Friday.
Sgt. Manuel Loggins Jr. was shot Tuesday as he started to get into the SUV where his two daughters — ages 9 and 14 — were sitting, authorities said.
Jim Amormino, a spokesman for the Sheriff's Department, said the deputy was fearful that Loggins — who he said appeared to be acting irrationally — was about the drive off with the girls.
"The real threat that was perceived was the safety of the children," Amormino said.
"The deputy formed an opinion that he had a deep concern for the children, that he would not allow Mr. Loggins to drive away with the kids," Amormino said.
A former commanding officer said Loggins routinely went to the school during the early morning with his daughters to walk the track and read the Bible.
Amormino said that Loggins was not armed and that the incident doesn't appear to be alcohol- or drug-related.
About 4:30 a.m. on the day of the shooting, the deputy was doing paperwork inside his car near San Clemente High School when he said he saw Loggins driving a white Yukon at an "unsafe, high rate of speed" into the school parking lot, Amormino said.
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Five other cops showed up. They lost sight of Loggins. They didn’t bother to block his car. They didn’t check on the kids, or talk to them. They made no effort to remove them from the car.
Yet the deputy said to himself, “I have an opinion that I have a deep concern for the (kids).” No statement on the conduct or reaction of the kids at the time.
Deep concern replaces using deadly force to prevent the death or great bodily harm to an innocent?
And he fired into the car, where the cops had apparently decided that they didn’t have an opinion that they had a deep concern for the kids.
Six cops, one “suspect.”
Being at the beach before 0500 is a glorious thing, you should try it sometime.
I have been.....I was merely thinking that it is hard to read anything by dark.
So he supposedly drove through a locked gate, obviously into the track?
The officer was afraid he wuld drive off. Where? Onto the track? If they blocked the entrance how was he going to drive off?
Arm a punk and tell everyone he is a peace officer.
“Something is very, very strange about this incident.”
Yeah, because right now it looks like the cops saw a black guy and shot him down.
Sorry, but the story they give makes LESS sense than that.
I mean, they had how many cops there and they did not attempt to subdue the guy they just SHOT him and not just shot him, but killed him?
WTF is the only reaction I have to this.
Precrime death penalty. This may be murder. We need a trial.
Is this how good police work is done today....get “a feeling” and then go murder the citizen?
The investigation into such killings needs to be done by outside non-law enforcement related organizations that have a vested interest in protecting the citizens, and getting to the truth....not covering up for murder.
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