Dale Engle, a police chief in Davie, Florida, has been put on paid leave after he allegedly claimed a deputy died of COVID-19 because he was gay.
Engle reportedly suggested that 39 year-old Broward County Sheriff’s Deputy, Shannon Bennett, “contracted and died from the virus because he was a “homosexual who attended homosexual events.” This was alleged in a letter sent to town officials by Chief of Staff for Florida’s Fraternal Order of Police, Mike Tucker, and was initially obtained by The