Topic: Police Chief Accused of Linking Deputy’s Covid-19 Death to ‘Homosexual Events’
Anonymous A started this discussion 6 years ago #98,634
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/us/coronavirus-gay-dale-engle-death.html
A Florida police chief has been placed on leave after a police union said he berated his officers and told them that a sheriff’s deputy had died from the coronavirus because he was a “homosexual who attended homosexual events.”
Dale Engle, the police chief in Davie, Fla., a town of 106,000 residents west of Fort Lauderdale, was placed on administrative leave on Saturday “pending further review of allegations brought forward by the Fraternal Order of Police,” the town administrator, Richard J. Lemack, said in a statement.
Mr. Lemack added that “the allegations will be investigated in accordance with the Town’s Equal Employment Opportunity compliance policy by outside counsel.” He declined to comment further.
The complaint, which was written by Mike Tucker, the Florida State Fraternal Order of Police chief of staff, described a patrol briefing on April 7 during which Davie police officers expressed concern about the coronavirus. The Miami Herald reported on the complaint on Saturday.
Chief Engle “belittled” the officers and ordered them into the parking lot in formation “like cadets back in the police academy,” according to the complaint.
“Engle then proceeded to berate these members about the issues they raised, yelling about their ‘baseless’ concerns,” the complaint said.
Chief Engle then cited Shannon Bennett, a Broward County sheriff’s deputy who had died of Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, four days before.
The chief suggested that Officer Bennett had contracted the coronavirus and died from it because “he was a homosexual who attended homosexual events,” the complaint said.
After the incident, the chief sent an email to his department in which he tried to walk back his comments. He said that he had been trying to “provide as much information as possible” and that his comments may have been “taken out of context,” according to the complaint. The chief also invited officers to talk to him if they wanted to discuss something.
A Florida police chief has been placed on leave after a police union said he berated his officers and told them that a sheriff’s deputy had died from the coronavirus because he was a “homosexual who attended homosexual events.”
Dale Engle, the police chief in Davie, Fla., a town of 106,000 residents west of Fort Lauderdale, was placed on administrative leave on Saturday “pending further review of allegations brought forward by the Fraternal Order of Police,” the town administrator, Richard J. Lemack, said in a statement.
Mr. Lemack added that “the allegations will be investigated in accordance with the Town’s Equal Employment Opportunity compliance policy by outside counsel.” He declined to comment further.
The complaint, which was written by Mike Tucker, the Florida State Fraternal Order of Police chief of staff, described a patrol briefing on April 7 during which Davie police officers expressed concern about the coronavirus. The Miami Herald reported on the complaint on Saturday.
Chief Engle “belittled” the officers and ordered them into the parking lot in formation “like cadets back in the police academy,” according to the complaint.
“Engle then proceeded to berate these members about the issues they raised, yelling about their ‘baseless’ concerns,” the complaint said.
Chief Engle then cited Shannon Bennett, a Broward County sheriff’s deputy who had died of Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, four days before.
The chief suggested that Officer Bennett had contracted the coronavirus and died from it because “he was a homosexual who attended homosexual events,” the complaint said.
After the incident, the chief sent an email to his department in which he tried to walk back his comments. He said that he had been trying to “provide as much information as possible” and that his comments may have been “taken out of context,” according to the complaint. The chief also invited officers to talk to him if they wanted to discuss something.
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