A Broward County Sheriff’s Office (BSO) deputy has been accused of going on an anti-Semitic tirade against a Jewish detainee earlier this year. In a federal lawsuit filed on August 31 in Fort Lauderdale, Jeffery Schwartz accuses BSO officer Precious Florence of violating his First Amendment rights while detaining him over a road rage incident in January. Specifically, the lawsuit alleges that Florence “berated and insulted” Schwartz’s religious faith by calling him a “stupid Jew” and referring to his kabbalah bracelet – a thin red string worn as a Jewish custom to ward off misfortune – as a “stupid Jewish string” before destroying it.