VIERA, Fla. – A Brevard County School Board candidate was hauled out of Tuesday night’s school board meeting after he allegedly used inappropriate language in discussing a proposed transgender policy and refused to leave.

School board candidate and teacher Dean Paterakis, 48, was arrested by Brevard County Sheriff’s deputies after he refused repeated requests to leave a school board meeting Tuesday. The incident, which was recorded on video and posted online by Florida Today, stemmed from Paterakis’ allegedly inappropriate comments regarding a local teacher.

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David Kearns, candidate for the Florida House, also posted a video of the incident to YouTube.

Cpl. Dave Jacobs, spokesman for the sheriff’s department, issued a statement about the incident that contends Paterakis was given several opportunities to leave the board meeting but opted instead to raise a ruckus.

“Paterakis … refused several lawful orders to leave the premises by uniformed deputies,” Jacobs wrote. “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 was hauled to Brevard County Jail where he was charged with two misdemeanors – disrupting a school function and resisting an officer – and later released on a $750 bond, according to The Blaze.

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The Florida Today video of the board meeting shows Paterakis, a local teacher, attempted to expose a school scandal Tuesday while making his point about how schools no longer put students first. Paterakis explained that there is a teacher at a local school who, students said, projected an image of his erect penis from his phone to a big screen in the classroom, and school board members immediately sent security to cut him off.

Though it is difficult to hear the audio from the recording, Paterakis clearly shouted about his First Amendment rights as security attempted to force him out of the meeting, and audience members can be heard shouting for the board to “let him speak!”

“He’s reporting what happened, let him speak!”

“If the crowd doesn’t calm down, the room will be cleared,” board chairman Andy Ziegler said.

The crowd then started to chant to “let him speak!”

Ziegler called a five-minute recess so officers could haul Paterakis away, then returned with a warning for the audience.

“We will not allow slanderous, abusive or profane speech in the meeting, and that’s a personal opinion,” Ziegler said to grumbling and jeers from the crowd.

“We can clear the room right now,” Ziegler threatened. “You all want to continue? We can continue our business meeting. It’s public, you don’t have to be in attendance.”

School board member Amy Kneessy told The Blaze in an email that Paterakis violated the rules of the board meeting by talking about a teacher, which board members consider a “personnel matter and not allowed at board meetings due to possible slander.”

She alleges he has a long history of disrupting meetings and riling up crowds. The school board eventually voted 3-2 to hold a public hearing on a proposed non-discrimination policy for gay and transgender people, despite opposition from parents.

And ignoring parents in favor of political correctness and special interests is the exact reason why Paterakis is running to represent District 4.

According to Paterakis’ campaign website:

I have experienced first-hand as a teacher in Brevard how we no longer put children first. Since leaving the teaching profession here in Brevard. I continue to observe our schools being manipulated to no longer serve the students and citizens of Brevard.  The agenda is to move our school decisions away from local citizen and parent control and give it to special interest groups at the national level.

Although this is a systemic issue throughout the United States, I feel if we had a strong local school board that did the will of the citizens instead of bending to the whims of well-funded special interest groups we could make a difference at the local level and make our children’s education and safety our priorities.