A man who was yelling at the clerk of a local hotel was arrested after “bear hugging” the officer who was alerted to the problem by an abbreviated 911 call for help.

FORT WALTON BEACH — A man who was yelling at the clerk of a local hotel was arrested after “bear hugging” the officer who was alerted to the problem by an abbreviated 911 call for help.

David Trent Smith, a 35-year-old Mississippi man, was yelling at the clerk on May 8 when the officer arrived.

The clerk asked the officer to remove Smith from the lobby. In addition to yelling at the clerk, he’d been fighting with two females in the lobby, the clerk said.

The officer told Smith three times to step outside, but he stopped to yell at the females and ignored the officer. The officer responded by pushing him to force him outside, at which point Smith turned and aggressively “bear-hugged” the officer.

The officer told Smith to turn him loose, but Smith refused.

“What are you going to do, fat boy?” he asked the cop.

At that point, the officer started hitting Smith with his fists, the report said. When Smith finally let him go, the officer “subdued” him with a Taser.