Cpl. Peter Descartes in a still from a lipsyncing video he participated in with other sheriff’s employees a few years ago.
Flagler County Sheriff’s detention deputy Cpl. Peter Descartes served a one-day suspension without pay last month following an internal investigation over allegations that he referred to a Black inmate by a racist slur in November. Descartes is himself Black, and denied using the term saying he used a different word that sounds similar.
Descartes will mark 18 years with the agency in November. He had previously been disciplined in 2018.
The complaint was filed by Christopher Brock, a 29-year-old Palm Coast resident who’d been jailed last August 27 on charges of trafficking cocaine, unlawful use of a two-way communication device and grand theft, all felonies. Last January Brock pleaded to the drug charges and was sentenced to three years in prison. He was transferred out of the county jail on Jan. 25 and is currently at Bay Correctional, a minimum-secur