“You look like a clown,” the cop told Christopher Marlowe, 40, after stuffing him into a squad car.

“No shit, I am a clown, stupid,” replied Marlowe, who was wearing a Ronald McDonald costume and a red nose at the time.

Police confronted Marlowe Monday afternoon at a Palm Bay, Florida shopping center from which he had been previously trespassed. “Don’t go anywhere, Chris,” a cop announced. “You’re not free to leave.”

As seen on body-worn police footage, Marlowe struggled with officers before he was knocked to the ground and handcuffed. One cop can be seen removing an orange replica gun from a pocket of Marlowe’s yellow pants.

Completing the clownish look, Marlowe wore a red-and-white striped shirt and a yellow vest (which had a skull logo in place of the McDonald’s arches). He was not wearing oversize red shoes, however.

A search of Marlowe’s backpack turned up multiple other clown outfits and a pack of 10 red noses.

Charged with trespassing, a misdemeanor, and resisting officers with violence, a felony, Marlowe (seen at right) was booked into the Brevard County jail. He is locked up in lieu of $5500 bond and is scheduled for arraignment on April 17. 

Marlowe’s rap sheet includes convictions for trespass, resisting arrest, and possession of drug paraphernalia. In January, he pleaded no contest to possession of methamphetamine and a glass pipe. Sentenced to 65 days in jail, Marlowe had been arrested in that case after causing a disturbance outside a McDonald’s restaurant.