School Board Candidate Carried Out Of Meeting By Police After Discussing 'Erect Penises'

Story out of Brevard County, Florida:

School Board candidate Dean Paterakis was charged with disrupting a school function and resisting an officer without violence Tuesday after he was ejected from a school board meeting dealing with LGBT issues. The incident was caught on video.

Paterakis was released on $750 bond before midnight on the two misdemeanor charges.

Paterakis was asked by School Board chairman Andy Ziegler to step away from the speakers' podium after making what Ziegler said were inappropriate remarks. A school district security officer asked him to leave, and Paterakis refused. Sheriff's deputies then stepped in to ask Paterakis to leave, according to a statement from sheriff's spokesman Cpl. Dave Jacobs.

"Paterakis then refused several lawful orders to leave the premises by uniformed deputies,'' Jacobs wrote in a statement released to the media. "In further effort to intentionally refuse the orders, Paterakis protested by dropping to the ground and continued verbally disrupting the function of the School Board meeting.''

Paterakis, 48, was eventually carried from the meeting by several deputies and handcuffed outside the meeting room. Cont. (Video)

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