NORTH BAY VILLAGE, Fla. — A Miami man is facing six criminal charges after North Bay Village police said he used racial slurs while causing a scene at a venue on Treasure Island just before midnight on Wednesday, then assaulted officers.

An arrest report states that a drunken Anthony Governale, 30, of downtown Miami, was “yelling profanities and racial slurs at one of the employees working at the door at the VIP entrance” of the Palm Tree Club, located at 1819 79th Street Causeway.

Governale, police said, was heard shouting, “F--- you n-----. I got a yellow n----- and a s---- n-----,” the latter phrase using a derogatory term about Hispanics.

Police said after an off-duty officer escorted Governale off the property, he walked on the sidewalk and continued to shout racial slurs, including calling someone a “slave n-----.”

Authorities said his “actions caused pedestrians to gather and several vehicles traveling on the (John F.) Kennedy Causeway to stop, creating a public safety hazard and obstructing the normal flow of traffic.”

Authorities said the officer moved to place Governale under arrest, but he ran.

The report states that after the officer and a colleague were able to catch up to Governale, he “refused to comply” and grabbed one officer’s hair and grabbed the other’s neck. A third officer shocked him with a Taser, police said, and the officers were able to take him into custody.

Governale was arrested on two felony counts each of battery on a law enforcement officer and resisting with violence. He also faces single misdemeanor charges of resisting without violence and disorderly intoxication.

As of Thursday, Governale was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $12,650 bond.

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