Tampa provocateur charged in fracas over racist slur returns to corner, claims self-defense
TAMPA —Tony Daniel is undeterred.
Three days after his arrest on an assault charge, the 60-year-old race-baiting provocateur was back on the same street corner Monday, shouting into a megaphone and holding a large sign with the same racial epithet that sparked the fracas.
Standing under a blazing sun on Kennedy Boulevard across from the University of Tampa, Daniel denied that he assaulted two women who stopped to confront him Friday about the sign he was holding. He said he plans to fight the charge "vigorously."
"We don’t think it’s going anywhere," he said.
A motorist captured the encounter on video, which was reviewed by the Tampa Bay Times. It initially shows Daniel, accompanied by a woman in a red dress, holding a sign, nearly as tall as he, that says, "Homeless (N------) go back to Africa." On the back side was another racist slur.
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Tony Daniel stands at the corner of Kennedy and South Hyde Park Park Avenue on Monday, three days after he was arrested on the same corner and charged with assault. The charge stems from a physical altercation with two Brandon women who objected to the use of the n-word on his sign. The sign he held Monday, redacted by Times, also included the word and a demand to fire a former city building official who now works for Hillsborough County. Daniel, 60, said he was defending himself and plans to fight the charge. [TONY MARRERO/Times staff]