A protester who showed up

at the remembrance ceremony at Pulse is arrested, Orlando police say.

A protester who showed up at the midday remembrance ceremony Monday at Pulse nightclub was arrested on charges of disturbing the peace and resisting arrest without violence, Orlando police say.

Two men, one of whom was carrying a large sign with homophobic slurs, showed up outside the club around 1 p.m.

The large crowd quickly surrounded the men and started shouting, “Love over hate.”

Orlando police officers went over to the men to defuse the situation. “Noticing the hostility of the situation, and the increasing volume of the crowd, I asked the sign holder if he would walk with us to the north to get him out of the crowd,” Sgt. Jerry Goglas wrote. “He stated, ‘Aren’t you here to protect me?’ I advised him that although I was there to keep the peace and protect all persons involved, the crowd was very emotional and becoming increasingly hostile towards him.”

The officers walked the men to the auto detail shop next door and said a place for them to protest the Pulse event would be designated.

One of the men, Daniel Christopher Maguire, 36, of Ruskin, tried to go back onto the Pulse property, Goglas said.

Officers tried to stop the man, but he kept trying to walk toward the club, Goglas said. Officers had to push him back and put him in handcuffs.

Goglas wrote Maguire’s actions were “inciting a brawl” and were “affecting the peace and quiet of a peace vigil attended by people mourning the loss of friends and family members on the date of their death, the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.” The other man was not arrested and left the event without incident.

There were several events across the city surrounding the one-year anniversary of the attack that left 49 people dead and dozens more injured at the club.