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"Six months after a DeLand police pursuit cost a man his life, four other DeLand officers are in trouble for violating the department pursuit policy.Video: Dashcam video from Marlon Brown's deathA sergeant has been demoted and three officers were disciplined following the November pursuit.\"No one ended up hurt in this situation, thank God. But it is still happening,\" said Krystal Brown, Marlon Brown's ex-wife.Krystal Brown was disappointed to hear that lessons learned following the death of her ex-husband may have been lost.Dashcam video from an officer's car on Nov. 28 shows she spotted a vehicle with an obstructed tag, which is a traffic infraction. DeLand police policy allows for a pursuit only in the case of a forcible felony. Yet the officer involved in the November incident continued on with permission from her patrol sergeant, who also got involved in the chase.\"They reprimanded the guys in this incident, but again I think there's no real consequence,\" Krystal Brown said. \"They feel that and that's why it continues to happen.\"Video: FDLE says no wrongdoing committed during Marlon Brown investigationFor the most part, the officer and the sergeant behind her didn't use excessive speed, because the offender wasn't speeding, according to the dashcam video. The driver obeyed traffic signals but refused to stop.The real danger occurred when two other officers joined the pursuit.One officer's dashcam video shows him responding at a high rate of speed as soon as he left the police station. He races recklessly along the roadways, ripping around other traffic and is clocked driving 80 miles an hour in a 25 mile an hour zone.\"Why would you chase them in the community and risk something happening like Marlon's all over again?\" Krystal Brown asked.Marlon Brown was being pursued last May for not wearing a seat-belt. When he jumped out of his car to run he was hit by a patrol car and killed.Since then, DeLand police have been retrained. All the officers involved in the November pursuit had retraining the month before and all now admit, they failed.Video: DeLand community outraged after man hit, killed by police officer"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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