Deputy: George Zimmerman used racial slur, insisted that black man ‘hit’ him

A Seminole County deputy ordered George Zimmerman to leave a bar near Sanford Wednesday night after he accused a black customer of hitting him, then became belligerent and used a racial slur, according to an incident report.

No one was injured and no one was arrested, the report states.

A bar video of the incident showed that the black man, Floyd L. Narcisse, 38, of Deltona, had extended his hand to Zimmerman, as if to shake it, and when Zimmerman refused, patted him twice on his left arm, the report said.

“It appeared as if he was attempting to engage in a friendly gesture with Zimmerman as a reasonable person would do,” the report states.

Zimmerman told the deputy that the man had twice hit him and demanded that he be prosecuted, the report said.

Narcisse, an unpaid pastor at an AME church in Daytona Beach, said Thursday, “That man’s crazy.”

Narcisse said he often sees Zimmerman at the bar and was simply being friendly.

“I was like, ‘Hey, George. How are you?’ … and I tapped him on the shoulder,” Narcisse said. “The next thing I know, cops say he wants to press charges.”

“I’m very cordial with the man, but yesterday, he was belligerent. He was yelling. … He was rude to everybody.”

Deputies had gone to the bar, Corona Cigar Co., in Colonial TownPark near Interstate 4 and State Road 46A, about 11 p.m. because of a disturbance involving a woman who was with Zimmerman.

While a deputy was looking into that set of allegations, the bar manager asked him to order Zimmerman to leave because he had snatched a credit card from an employee, yelled at her and had been the center of several recent disturbances, according to the report.

On his way out, Zimmerman used a racial slur, the manager told the deputy.

Zimmerman also insulted the deputy, according to the report. While filling out a written complaint about Narcisse, Zimmerman described the deputy as “an incompetent officer under qualified (sic) to flip burgers” and threatened to file suit, the report said.

Zimmerman is the former Neighborhood Watch volunteer who was acquitted of murdering Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black 17-year-old, during a confrontation in Sanford in 2012.

He did not return a phone call Thursday but in an email said that he had asked Narcisse to leave him alone, something that did not stop the lay pastor from patting him on the arm. Zimmerman also complained that deputies did not adequately investigate the disturbance that originally brought them to the bar.

A spokeswoman for the State Attorney’s Office said prosecutors had taken no action and received no paperwork from the Sheriff’s Office about Zimmerman’s complaint.

The Sheriff’s Office would not release the video.

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