A Florida police chief has been placed on administrative leave after asserting that a Broward County sheriff’s deputy died of COVID-19 because he was gay.Broward Sheriff’s Office Deputy Shannon Bennett died April 3 of complications related to the virus, making him Florida’s first line-of-duty casualty of the pandemic.
In a briefing of officers four days later, Dale Engle, police chief in the town of Davie, which is within Broward County, minimized his department’s concern about the virus by