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COLLIER COUNTY: A man in a gorilla suit was arrested at a Martin Luther King Junior event in Naples. Officers with the Naples Police Department say he was charged with resisting an officer and breaching the peace. But some people who saw the whole thing happen say the charges may be a little excessive.

The event took place at Cambier Park. The family said everyone was having a lot of fun, but the fun quickly turned to force.

Michelle Anderson says when she looks at the pictures of her husband getting arrested by Naples Police officers two words come to mind - "excessive force."

"He couldn't understand what he'd done wrong," said Anderson.

Anderson says her husband, Michael Anderson, was entertaining the crowd in his gorilla costume at an MLK event when police asked him to leave.

Michelle Anderson believes it was because of a T-shirt Michael was wearing over his costume.

"It says 'owned by.' It has the letters N-I-G-G-A-Z-Z, which is basically a statement meaning it is black owned and we're very proud of it being black-owned," said Anderson.

Police officers say a number of people did complain about the T-shirt but it had nothing to do with the arrest. They say Anderson was frightening children in his costume and disturbing the peace.

After Anderson was asked to leave, a local newspaper photographer, Vladimir Wladimir Moquete, walked onto the scene and snapped pictures of Anderson getting arrested after police say he didn't leave quietly.

"Maybe it was a little too extreme. But he was told from what the police told me, he was told to leave and he really didn't," said Moquete.

Charged with resisting arrest and breaching the peace, Moquete says he sees both sides to the situation.

"People were not taking offense to it; they were laughing and having a good time. But it got to the point of people just tired of seeing him," said Moquete.

But Anderson says after her children saw what happened, she is not leaving it alone and she intends to file a complaint.

"My child was saying, 'Leave my dad alone, don't take my daddy,'" said Anderson.

Michael Anderson was released on bond Tuesday. A judge did drop the resisting arrest charge but he still faces the breaching the peace charge.