The previous Navy SEAL credited with firing the bullet that killed al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden goes after the Texas lodge the place he allegedly attacked a safety guard final summer time, claiming in a federal lawsuit the incident by no means occurred.
Rob O’Neill was accused on Aug. 23, 2023, of utilizing the N-word whereas tangling with Johnny Lee Loomis, a white safety guard who was working that day on the Omni Lodge in Frisco, Texas.
It was alleged O’Neill was intoxicated on the time of the alleged assault. He was hit with misdemeanor expenses of assault and public intoxication. The Collin County District Legal professional’s workplace has not mentioned publicly whether or not it plans to pursue the fees, The Dallas Morning Information reported, stating that the workplace didn’t reply to a question in regards to the case on Friday.
For the reason that allegations went public, O’Neill is not securing as many talking engagements, he claimed within the lawsuit, filed on Aug. 14 in US District Courtroom for the Northern District of Texas in Dallas.
The swimsuit claims O’Neill “suffered compensable harm, together with, however not restricted to, harm to Plaintiffs’ fame, bodily ache and psychological anguish, lack of companionship and society, misplaced enterprise, alternative, lack of talking engagements, private bodily harm and illness, and emotional misery, amongst different issues to be confirmed at trial.” The swimsuit seeks unspecified punitive damages exceeding $75,000.
Talking to Fox Information, O’Neill mentioned he’s misplaced “a ton of enterprise,” including “there was some extent in my profession the place I used to be giving 300 speeches in a single 12 months, between 250 and 300 speeches and that many cities in a 12 months, and now it’s simply dried up, as a result of it’s a foul look that didn’t occur.”
Within the swimsuit, O’Neill claimed the lodge “knowingly, recklessly, and negligently employed and retained Loomis as a safety guard regardless of his recognized historical past of violence and of constructing false accusations of violence and misconduct towards lodge friends.”
O’Neill advised Fox Information he did have a drink that night time, following a protracted day that together with a talking look.
He acknowledged he fell asleep on the lodge bar, and encountered Loomis on the best way again to his room.
He mentioned he by no means touched Loomis, and denied utilizing the racial slur.
O’Neill advised the outlet he was confused by Loomis’ allegations.
“It wasn’t till later that I came upon that not solely had I been accused of assault, I’d been accused of utilizing a racial slur,” he mentioned to Fox Information. “And that, to me, was odd, too, together with the one man escorting me as much as him being a middle-aged white man, like a dude in his 60s and rapidly he’s claiming assault and claiming a racial slur, which with two guys alone in a hallway is simply to me, foolish.”
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