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Video captures Rhode Island prosecutor warning officers will 'regret this' as she's arrested at restaurant

Devon Hogan Flanagan, 34, faces a personnel review after her August 14 arrest for willful trespass at a Newport restaurant where she resisted police and requested body cameras be turned off.

  • On Aug. 14, Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Hogan Flanagan was arrested outside The Clarke Cooke House, 24 Bannister's Wharf, Newport, with Newport Police Department bodycam footage released Aug. 18.
  • Restaurant employees called police after Veronica Hannan allegedly refused to leave, and staffers told officers they had asked Hannan and Flanagan to leave 13 times before police responded around 9.
  • In the footage, Flanagan repeatedly asserts she was an attorney general and requests Newport police officers to turn off their police body-worn cameras while being handcuffed and placed in a police cruiser.
  • The Attorney General’s Office announced it is reviewing the encounter, and Devon Hogan Flanagan faces a willful trespass charge with arraignment set for Aug. 27.
  • Attorney General Peter Neronha said Flanagan would 'take some steps,' must apologize, and called her conduct inexcusable and humiliating during a Tuesday WPRO radio interview.
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The Rhode Island Attorney General's office said it is conducting a review after the arrest of one of its prosecutors, who can be seen on body camera footage telling an officer, "You're going to regret this," while being detained. Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Flanagan, 34, was arrested in Newport on Thursday for trespassing, according to the attorney general's office. Police responded to a call from a restaurant late that night "to in…

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