Tag: Coconut Creek
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Broward commission postpones high-profile vote on ’emotional issue’ of mountainous north county dump
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org CLICK THROUGH TO SEE 11 A.M. UPDATE To dump, nor not to dump. That is the question. At 1:30 Tuesday afternoon, giant Waste Management will ask the Broward County Commission to alter the county’s land use designation on the site of a decommissioned waste-to-energy plant on company property that could provide…
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Will it be back to the future to solve Broward’s trash and recycling crisis?
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org Faced with a monopolistic trash disposal system and the decline of recycling, Broward County is about to have a back-to-the-future moment.
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Actions of Coconut Creek detectives investigating Taser death questioned
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org Coconut Creek detectives investigating the death of a black man shot multiple times by police Tasers in the Wynmoor condo complex have re-questioned two eyewitnesses in what outside police sources say was an apparent attempt to discredit their testimony.
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Coconut Creek police chief forced out amid Taser death investigation; Acting chief named
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org Coconut Creek Police Chief Michael J. Mann, who less than a week ago publicly declared that there had been “no cover up” in his department’s ongoing investigation of city officers who shot and killed a man with Tasers, was forced to resign on Wednesday.
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Coconut Creek police probe of officer in bathtub Taser incident missed facts, short on answers
By Dan Christensen BrowardBulldog.org An internal police investigation of a Coconut Creek officer who pulled his Taser while interrogating a frightened theft suspect in a bathtub omitted relevant facts and did not follow department policy.
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Don’t ask, don’t tell at the Broward State Attorney’s Office
By Dan Christensen BrowardBulldog.org Broward prosecutors who declined to charge a Coconut Creek policeman who pulled a Taser on a frightened theft suspect standing in a bathtub never asked the officer under oath why he hadn’t mentioned the incident in his police reports.
