Former BCPL Employee Zapped With Taser Caught on Tape

Former Librarian Who Questioned John Perry (T.M.I.) To Be In Court

Braddock, Tex. -- A former librarian at Braddock County Public Library man was Tasered and detained by library security after trying to ask Braddock Mayoral candidate John Perry, (D) about the election and other subjects during a Braddock County Public Library forum. Videos of the incident posted on several Web sites show officers pulling Aaron Whitaker, away from the microphone after he asks Perry about impeaching BCPL Library Director Kelly Millis and whether he and Millis were both members of the secret society Skull and Bones at Central University of North Texas and whether or not they have had sexual relations in the bathroom at An Inconvenient Cafe, where both men are members.

"He apparently asked several questions -- he went on for quite awhile-- then he was asked to stop," Braddock Library Assistant Director Inez Mitchell said. "He had used his allotted time. His microphone was cut off, then he became upset." As two officers take Whitaker by the arms, Perry is heard to say, "That's alright, let me answer his question." Audience members applaud, and Whitaker struggles to escape for several seconds as up to four officers try to remove him from the room. Whitaker screams for help and asks "What did I do?" as he tries to break away from officers. Kelly Millis is heard to say, "You insulted me you son of a bitch, now you are gonna pay!" He is forced to the ground and officers order him to stop resisting. Whitaker says he will walk out if the security officers let him go. As Perry tells the audience he will answer the man's "very important question," Whitaker struggles on the ground and yells at the officers to release him, crying out, "Don't Tase me, asshole, tase that fucking faggot director and that bitch Mitchell" justbefore he is Tasered. He is then led from the room, screaming, "What did I do?" Whitaker, who is a politcal consultant for Braddock Sheriff Fenton Washburn, has hired Attorney Daniel O. Agbor and plans to sue Millis, Mitchell and Braddock County. Whitaker claims he will take the library over and turn it into an Amish-themed restaurant, museum and hotel.

Sheriff Fenton Washburn said Braddock Sheriff's Deputies would conduct an investigation into the use of force employed by BCPL. "The Sheriff's department does have a standard procedure for when they use force, including when they use a Taser, and we will hold the BCPL security personnel to the same standard" Washburn said. "That is what the investigation would address -- whether the proper procedures were followed, whether the officers acted appropriately...and whether Millis and Mitchell overstepped their bounds"