Children and parents at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant in Tallahassee were startled as the friendly mouse mascot, or the man portraying him in costume, was handcuffed and arrested last month, and now more people are weighing in after newly released police bodycam video of the incident went viral this week.

In one video released by the Tallahassee Police Department, as two police officers entered the restaurant in pursuit of a man suspected of credit card fraud, one said, “We’re gonna detain the mouse. … I want you to grab him.”

“Want me to cuff him in front of the kids?” asks the other officer in another video. “Yeah,” replies the first.

As they approached Jermel Jarreau Jones, 41, who was wearing the familiar green and purple mouse costume and oversized red sneakers and interacting with

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