{"id":28809,"date":"2012-02-20T08:20:12","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T12:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28809"},"modified":"2012-02-20T08:20:12","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T12:20:12","slug":"marines-dispute-police-accounts-of-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28809","title":{"rendered":"Marines dispute police accounts of shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the story about Orange County Deputy Sheriff Department shooting of Marine Sgt. Manuel Loggins Jr, which we first discussed last week<\/a>, members of Loggins’ unit are speaking up to dispute essential elements of the deputies in a Marine Corps Times\/Associated Press<\/a> article sent to us by Marine-7002;<\/p>\n

Loggins\u2019 commanding officer, Col. Nicholas Marano, countered back with a bruising statement issued to the media: \u201cWhile I am confident they will do the right thing in the end, I am less than satisfied with the official response from the City of San Clemente and Orange County. Many of the statements made concerning Manny Loggins\u2019 character over the past few days are incorrect and deeply hurtful to an already grieving family.\u201d<\/p>\n

The words were especially searing given the military\u2019s close relationship with law enforcement agencies \u2014 many of whom are made up of former service members \u2014 and the fact that the investigation was in its initial stages. The Orange County district attorney\u2019s office is leading the probe and declined to comment.<\/p>\n

Loggins\u2019 supervisor, Maj. Christopher Cox, said Marano\u2019s bold statement won applause in the Corps.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re glad he stepped up and made a statement over the way this has been handled,\u201d he said. \u201cEverybody reads the report presented by the Orange County officials. Obviously it contradicts what we know to be the case about him. He was involved with his family. His relationship with his daughters was fantastic. They were a close family. To paint it any other way is not right.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The police, who’ve made it sound like Loggins was yet another nutty veteran having a PTSD episode, are out in the cold on this one. Even though Loggins has been in the Marine Corps since 1999, he has never deployed to the war on terror. The Marine Corps and the police agree that Loggins had three Bibles in his car, but nothing that would endanger the sheriff’s deputy or his children.<\/p>\n

Our buddy, Beat and Release<\/a>, has assembled most of the facts on his own blog in an easy to understand post.<\/p>\n

Given the breathless recounting of Itzcoatl Ocampo’s<\/a> story of a nutty veteran who killed at least four homeless men in LA County because of his service in the war against terror, you’d think the police have an easy exit from this tragic embarrassment, what with the media’s rush to explain everything with stereotypes. But the Orange County Sheriff’s Department needs to come clean with the truth quickly in this case for the newly widowed, expectant wife and the two traumatized children who witnessed the murder of their father.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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