Former Navy SEAL Robert O’Neill, who claims he fired the shot that killed Osama bin Laden, beat up a security guard and called him the N-word during an alcohol-fueled incident that led to his arrest after he passed out in a hotel bar in Texas last week. said a police source.
The hero had hurled a racial slur after he got drunk and fell asleep at a bar Wednesday inside the Omni at The Star — right next door to the Dallas Cowboys headquarters in Frisco, according to the Frisco Police Department.
An unnamed security guard who tried to help O’Neill to his room was assaulted and berated by the elite fighter — resulting in O’Neill’s arrest.
[“O’Neill] turned to him, raised his fist in the air and hit him in the chest with his right palm,” the hotel’s security officer told police. “Robert called her a ‘fu–ing n—er'” when he hit her.
The Frisco Police Department released a jail booking photo of O’Neill after his arrest Wednesday. Frisco Police Department
The security guard backed away from O’Neill saying, “I can’t believe you just hit me,” the report said.
The former special operations team member then repeated the taunt, the guard claimed.
O’Neill said the allegations made by the security guard were untrue.
“I have served my country honorably and proudly for half my life in combat around the world, standing shoulder to shoulder with men of all races, religions and sexual orientations,” O’Neill told The Post.
“The color of a person’s skin doesn’t matter when your life is on the line. The idea that I would use racial slurs against anyone is so ridiculous, so offensive not only to myself but to all my brothers who have served and fought alongside me; I deny it vehemently.”
A former member of SEAL Team 6, O’Neill gained notoriety after he took credit for firing the shot that killed 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden during a secret raid in 2011.
O’Neill told his story in his 2017 memoir “The Operator.”
O’Neill, whose occupation is listed as “author” in the arrest report wrote “The Operator,” a 2017 memoir. Facebook
The United States government has never confirmed or denied the story.
O’Neill, a Tennessee resident, had traveled to the Dallas area to record the podcast.
A hotel security guard was assigned to help O’Neill up to his room after the hotel “offered to use a wheelchair to help Robert back to his room on the 5th floor,” police said.
“Robert refused to be pushed around in a wheelchair, so [a security guard] offered to help him to his room.”
Moments later, the same security guard called into his radio and informed his colleague that he had been attacked by O’Neill.
O’Neill is visiting Texas to record a podcast.Jason Merritt
The staff was able to escape from the retired special ops fighter. Frisco police arrived a short time later, heading to the fifth floor.
The security guard was so badly injured that medics had to be called to treat him, police documents reveal.
O’Neil wailed on the security officer’s chest with his palm and suffered a separate injury. However, that information has been redacted from the police report.
When police arrived at the hotel, they described finding one of America’s most elite warriors barely able to stand on his own two feet.
O’Neill, 47, allegedly passed out at the Omni Hotel at the Star bar.Facebook
“Robert had a strong odor of alcoholic beverages from his body and glassy red eyes,” the law enforcement official said.
“Corporal Anderson observed that Robert was holding a silver credit card in his hand,” the arrest report states. “Robert pressed the card on the lock to open the room.”
When authorities tried to question O’Neill, including how much he had to drink, he refused to give any answers and repeatedly said, “We’re good,” officials said.
He told officers he believed he was in Addison, a different Dallas suburb about 30 minutes from Frisco.
The US government has never confirmed or denied that O’Neill was a member of the SEAL Team Six that killed Osama bin Laden.Facebook
The 47-year-old man was arraigned Wednesday in Frisco and charged with a Class A misdemeanor charge of assault causing bodily injury and a Class C misdemeanor charge of public intoxication.
He was released from prison and celebrated his wedding anniversary over the weekend.
In 2020, the outspoken vet was banned by Delta Airlines for refusing to wear a mask.
In 2016 he was arrested for drunken driving in Montana, a charge that was later dropped by prosecutors, CBS News reported.
The veteran is also one of the backers of Armed Forces Brewing Co., a Virginia microbrewer born amid controversy over Bud Light’s sponsorship of LGBTQ influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
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