TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Newly released police body camera footage captures the surreal moment officers arrested a man wearing a full Chuck E. Cheese mascot costume — complete with oversized gloves and red cartoon shoes — inside a busy Florida restaurant.

The video, recorded July 23 and released by the Tallahassee Police Department, shows officers walking up to the mascot as he posed for photos with customers . Children can be heard in the background as police confront the costumed suspect, later identified as 41-year-old Jermel Jones, and place him in handcuffs.

“Don’t resist,” an officer says. “Let your hands go.”

The footage shows police removing the character’s giant mouse head and setting it on top of a patrol car before leading Jones away. He was still wearing the Chuck E. gloves w

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