Union: Chief said deputy's virus death caused by gay events

[TexasTowelie]

DAVIE, FLA. -- A Florida town has placed its police chief on administrative leave after he was accused by officers of saying a sheriff's deputy died of COVID-19 because he was a “homosexual who attended homosexual sexual events.”

The Fort Lauderdale suburb of Davie announced late Saturday that Chief Dale Engle will be on leave while the allegations made by the Fraternal Order of Police union are investigated. Richard Lemack, administrator for the town of 100,000 residents, said in a statement he would have no further comment.

According to the Miami Herald, Engle met with officers during their Tuesday patrol briefing, four days after the coronavirus death of Broward County Sheriff's Deputy Shannon Bennett, 39. The officers expressed their concerns about catching the disease as Bennett had done.

The union said in a letter to Lemack that Engle “allegedly yelled about a ‘backstory’ which proclaimed that Deputy Bennett contracted and died from the virus because he was a ’homosexual who attended homosexual sexual events.'”

Read more: https://www.star-telegram.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article241952251.html

[AllaN01Bear]

1. horsefeathers. nt

[TexasTowelie]

3. Wouldn't it be more appropriate to say

rainbow unicorn feathers instead?

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Wow,another ignorant

christo-facist Police Chief. You just can not fix Stupid.

[TexasTowelie]

4. Throughout my review of media sites across the nation

there appears to be no shortage of the stupid. It was just a coincidence that it was another "Florida Man" story.

[Wellstone ruled]

6. Yes,there are more of these

so called moral idiots disguised as Mayors,Police Chiefs,Council Persons,and elected Politicians. And I dare say,most are Caucasians.

[degage]

5. I wonder what the chief has to say about church-goers who contract the virus.

There will be lots of people who contract the virus because they insist on going to Christian church events. At a time when it is unwise to gather at any event.

Somehow, I suspect the chief won't be including that in the briefings about why they've died from COVID-19 as part of his desire to provide a backstory and all the relevant information.

This is a virus that is transmitted through the air. Not an STD. I won't be sad at all if the chief contracts the virus.

[dameatball]

8. Bingo

[Zorro]

7. A Trump-loving woman died of Covid-19 in my Florida neighborhood

As recently reported in the Tampa paper, she wouldn't take the advice of her granddaughter in Boston to get checked out when she first started having the symptoms, instead relying on Trump's dismissal of the virus as nothing to get concerned about. And now she's gone.

Wonder what the police chief would say about that.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/04/07/the-last-days-of-rosemarie-gabriele-pasco-countys-first-coronavirus-victim/