ORLANDO, Fla. – Over two months after his arrest, prosecutors have opted not to file charges against a Republican candidate for the Florida House who was accused of battery.
That candidate — Michael Lincoln-McCreight — originally gained notoriety back in January after a viral video showed him yelling a racial slur at a 7-Eleven employee.
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Lincoln-McCreight is also running to represent District 41 in the state House of Representatives, though he was taken into custody on March 3 by Orlando police on two counts of first-degree misdemeanor battery (dating violence).
The incident stemmed from accusations that he’d pushed a woman against a wall and put his hands around her throat, “asking her if she liked it,” the arrest warrant affidavit shows.
But on Tuesday, court records obtained by News 6 show that no charges were ultimately filed against Lincoln-McCreight.
According to those records, prosecutors determined that the testimonial evidence they received wasn’t corroborated by any physical evidence, thereby making conviction highly unlikely.
That said, Lincoln-McCreight has also been identified as a former member of the Orange County Disability Advisory Board. A spokesperson for the county confirmed to News 6 that he’d resigned from the board following the viral video in January.
According to Disability Rights Florida (DRF), Lincoln-McCreight — who reportedly suffered from a developmental disability — was declared “incompetent” by a court in 2014 and forced into a guardianship.
But after he contacted DRF, an attorney helped him get the guardianship terminated, the group reports.