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The Push, the Slur, and the Ramming: A Security Guard’s Worst Shift at a Polk County Resort You came to work expecting a shift. The polo shirt at the front desk was supposed to be a guest with a question about the rodeo. Instead, the night gave you a hand in your chest, a racial slur in your ear, and the back of your patrol car being rammed by a man who told you he was a Miami police officer. He was not. He was a Chicago police officer, off duty, more than a thousand miles from his beat, and the Polk County Sheriff’s Office has him in custody on a battery charge with a hate-crime enhancement under Florida Statute § 775.085. This page is written for the security guard, the family of the security guard, and any Florida worker who has been pushed, threatened, or racially abused by a guest or stranger with a badge. We sit on your side of the table. We work these cases in Florida. We are Ralph Manginello and Lupe Peña of Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC — and the rest of this page is the legal machinery that sits behind what…