DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. — A wild scene played out at the Renaissance Festival, but this was not a medieval performance.

Broward sheriff’s deputies responded last month after calls “regarding an intoxicated male subject described as shirtless, bald and with tattoos all over his body, who was yelling at and making threats towards patrons.”

Deputies located the man, and according to an arrest affidavit, the suspect repeatedly got into a deputy’s personal space and said, “You want to shoot me, you want to shoot me.”

The deputy said the man appeared to be highly intoxicated.

There was a struggle and the deputy said he was able to take Theodore Ray Blount, 39, to the ground.

The deputy said Blount continued to struggle as he was being put in the back of a patrol unit, and that he “continued yelling, kicking, and striking his head against the interior cage and door.”

Blount was booked into the Broward jail and charged with several crimes, including assault with threat to do violence and battery on an officer or firefighter.

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