The heat of the moment?

Oh MY Gawd, there's a BLACK MAN in San Clemente!
What should I do!?
Call in back up! Call the SWAT team!
Wait he's moving, there's NO TIME LEFT!!!.....
SHOOT TO KILL !

That'll show 'em.

Sooooo... shooting inside of the vehicle is justified? But as they "experts" has stated, there are too many unknowns and it doesn't look like we will know anything for awhile. I guess that gives Dirtbag enough time to get his story together.. Nonetheless, a civilsuit can be filed for this even if the DA doesn't want to do anything about it.

First of all, why exactly would you throw race into it? That makes no sense whatsoever!
Second, unless you're a police officer and were there, who are you to judge? I'm so sick & tired of everyone being sue happy! Did you consider the danger he put his children in? Or just jump on the bandwagon? I'm sure Mr Salty & Ms. Air Force are the 1st to call the police when they need them, but also the 1st to throw the 1st stone!

Just like I said on my comments. Hem the car in. Don't let him back in the vehicle. Remove the daughters.
None of this was done so kill him...

"Straight ahead was the campus, offering no vehicle exit.", yet he posed such an immediate grave danger from starting his car?? These retired experts seem to be on the right track as far as why they didn't use less lethal force, despite letting him get back in the Yukon. If it was because Sandberg didn't have his taser on him, when he should have, that sounds like criminal negligence to me.
I hope NCIS is 'assisting' the heck out of the DA's office...

All I read here is "take our word for it the guy was acting weird. We probably shouldn't have shot him but what's done is done. Oh well. Better luck next time."

I won't believe a thing until we see the dash cam.

This mans character has been spoken of in such a positive light. Has anyone considered that something medical could have been going on with him to make him behave in a strange manner? As far as the "in the heat of the moment" comment goes, they train for these things, it is their job to know what to do in the heat of the moment. Those officers should lose their jobs and be prosecuted for the insane amount of mistakes that they made as well as the excessive force they used. Praying for the family.

I will not believe a word until I see the dash cam. PERIOD! You got nothing to hide OCSD??? Then bring it on. Any suppression of evidence is an admission to guilt.

Let's say they didn't have a beanbag gun, taser gun, canines, and didn't have the Yukon blocked in as they are trained to do. If multiple deputies had guns drawn as he approached the vehicle, why didn't one yell out loud to the others so the Marine could hear it, "OK, I'm shooting his right leg, someone else shoot his left"? That puts it on the Marine. If he doesn't freeze, take his legs out.

I'm afraid to leave anything derogatory about OCSD. I could be murdered going to the library !!

The dash cam would be very helpful in this situation. I am in agreement that the children should have been removed from the vehicle and placed in one of the deputies cars. The OCSD is also guilty of endangering the lives of the children. Removing the keys from the vehicle if they were in the ignition or blocking the vehicle with the deputies cars would have prevented the fatal shooting. The deputy who did this has to deal with the consequences of his actions for the rest of his life. Based on Sgt. Loggins actions I believe he was experiencing PTSD or an anxiety attack. My heart goes out to his daughters who had to witness their Dad being shoot to death. I think the OCSD should pay for their therapy to help them deal with and hopefully recover from this horrific event that occurred.

Sandberg is a killer. He wanted to kill and he did. His actions are that of a killer. The result of Sandbergs actions are -a widow and the destruction of a family. I rate Sandberg a zero as a law enforcement officer and less than zero as a marine.

Wow those poor kids, having there dad's shooting as the last thing they remember of him. So sad that a cop had to react this way.

Thou shall not kill.

Unless your a cop don't judge man eff that cops who make mistakes should have to pay for it I'm in the army and if we make a mistake and kill a unarmed person we go to jail but naw if a cop kills a unarmed AMERICAN and a MARINE its cool it was the heat of the moment go look and see how many soldiers r in jail BC they thought they where in danger I think they have a lil more stressful job so yes cops are nothing but ill trained people with guns who don't have to worry bout ROE on our own people

Sandberg at first claims he acted in fear but that was later modified to protect the girls. Since he fired his weapon, at night, into a vehicle the girls were in the union or chief will need to clean that up some more. A overwhelming percentage of police in this country are becoming overbearing and arrogant exhibiting malevolent antisocial behavior. They act like scared little girls and murder citizens with impunity. Then their unions protect their murderous ways with statements modified after the union rep or chief's review. They have little value of a person's life either before they kill them and none afterwards. At least they did not become commercial airline pilots. With nobody to shoot they would freeze with fear when faced with an engine out or in flight fire. Unfortunately a growing proportion of police do not have a clue what it takes to deal professionally with an impending disaster and keeping everyone alive. Aviation does not protect their own with the unskilled weeded out and blackballed. Imagine the pilots union always backing up a marginal pilots error to take off with ice on the wings, spin in on approach or to run out of fuel. Or an airline not disclosing that a critical part that failed was improperly inspected by a marginal mechanic. The public would not stand for that so why put up with marginal police officers. The unions are too powerful!!! Law enforcement will wait to see the light when only after they are killing each other at a higher rate.

Cops over-react to everything these days. They scare ME...and I'm WHITE!

Justin, You are perfectly correct, it is not such much the error which is always a part of the human equation but the denial of such error that is unforgivable. The path to returning trust and confidence in law enforcement rests in there ability to acknowledge and own up to there mistakes. Unfortunately the OCSD and many other LE agencies has decided that it is a better strategy to Deny,deny, deny then blame the victim than it is to acknowledge that adrenaline/fear/confusion got the best of them. We would have better performing LE and more respect for those on the job if they were able to acknowledge there mistakes. A question for all of us "what is the first step toward correcting ____________ problem" answer admitting there is a problem. I for one do not think that LE has a right to demand support from the public without transparency and honesty from LE themselves. We are in this together step up LE. If you are good then stand with the good don't defend the bad because they wear the same uniform.

"what would another reasonable officer have done under the same or similar circumstances". Not kill him, that's for sure. If four to five deputies are @ the scene & they can't control an unarmed man, they shouldn't be Deputies,

First off you presuppose the cop was intelligent , that is the first oversight, second was to provide him a gun, third was to give him ammunition, 4th. was to let him out on the street. When are we going to get up off our butts and start demanding a change in the system. It is all to obvious that the existing organizations are broken. The American police have been brainwashed by the Homeland Security that we are all suspected of being a terrorist , given a paramilitary sense of defense, supplied fully automatic weapons, battle gear, why aren’t we supplying the so called “ Protect and Serve “ police a good psychological testing to see if they are capable of making life and death decisions on the very people they are to serve and protect. Most of the so called police today believe they are given free license to do what they damn well please and have the blue mafia shield them, or take up collections to defend them (Fullerton Situation). We have a flawed and broken system and it won’t get better until we citizens take back our streets and put capable people in uniform that are trustworthy and protect the citizens, not shoot first and ask questions later.

shoot 3 times into the suv with the kids in there, real safe. Now they have to live the rest of there lives haunted by there dads murder in front of them and no dad. way to save the girls PD