A Rhode Island special assistant district attorney threatened revenge on police officers that eventually arrested her and a friend after they allegedly refused to leave a restaurant on Thursday evening.
Video of the bodycam footage shows Devon Flanagan getting arrested in front of the 24 Bannister’s Wharf restaurant in Newport.
‘Buddy, you’re gonna regret this.’
The Rhode Island Attorney General’s Office confirmed that Flanagan had been arrested and was summoned to court on a charge of willful trespass.
The entertaining video shows Flanagan challenging police commands and trying to use her position to escape responsibility.
“I want you to turn your body cam off. Protocol is that you turn it off if a citizen requests that you turn it off,” Flanagan says to an officer as he approaches her in
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