{"id":175027,"date":"2026-03-02T14:43:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T14:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/175027\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T14:43:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T14:43:19","slug":"man-makes-anti-cuban-slur-exchanges-punches-with-victim-at-coral-gables-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/175027\/","title":{"rendered":"Man makes anti-Cuban slur, exchanges punches with victim at Coral Gables bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">CORAL GABLES, Fla.  \u2014 A 35-year-old man was arrested Thursday night on accusations that he got into a fight with another man at a popular bar in Coral Gables after making an anti-Cuban slur toward the victim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/02\/27\/policia-hombre-lanza-insulto-anticubano-y-se-va-a-los-golpes-con-victima-en-bar-de-coral-gables\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/02\/27\/policia-hombre-lanza-insulto-anticubano-y-se-va-a-los-golpes-con-victima-en-bar-de-coral-gables\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to an arrest report from the Coral Gables Police Department, the incident was reported shortly after 11 p.m. at Copper 29, located at 206 Miracle Mile.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said the victim claimed that the suspect, Anthony Steven Gonzalez, approached him in a \u201cthreatening manner\u201d and said, \u201cI know you from somewhere. All Cubans are the same p****.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the report, Gonzalez, of Hialeah, was born in Miami but his ethnicity is listed as Cuban.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said after he made the disparaging comment, Gonzalez then got closer to the victim\u2019s face, at which point the victim created distance from him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the report, the victim claimed that he saw Gonzalez reaching into his pocket and assumed a fighting stance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Gonzalez then kicked the victim in the leg and the two exchanged punches, eventually ending up on the floor, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said surveillance video from the bar shows a pocketknife falling from Gonzalez\u2019s pocket during the altercation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Gonzalez fled the scene after the fight, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the report, the victim sustained minor injuries to his face and minor cuts to his right wrist. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Gonzalez was arrested a short time later on a charge of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. Records show that at the time of his arrest, he was out on felony bond for charges of aggravated battery and possession of cocaine. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As of Friday afternoon, he remained at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. Online jail records listed his bond as \u201cto be set.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORAL GABLES, Fla. \u2014 A 35-year-old man was arrested Thursday night on accusations that he got into a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-175027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}