‘You’re going to remorse it’
A Rhode Island prosecutor demanded Newport cops shut off their body-worn cameras as she was being thrown behind a cruiser for alleged trespassing — warning the cops they have been “going to remorse it,” based on studies and authorities.
Police arrived to seek out Particular Assistant Lawyer Basic Devon Hogan Flanagan and her pal Veronica Hannan outdoors the Clarke Cooke Home restaurant on Thursday night when responding to a name about “undesirable get together,” the Newport Police Division informed NBC10.
Flanagan was caught hurling a sequence of threats and making an attempt to intimidate officers together with her job title in chaotic bodycam footage launched by the division.
As cops arrived, the prosecutor informed officers, “I would like you to show your bodycam off. Protocol is that you simply flip it off. It’s a citizen request that you simply flip it off,” based on the footage.
“They need you to depart. Let’s simply go away,” an officer informed Flanagan and Hannan, asking the ladies to stroll away.
A cop then may very well be heard within the clip asking a person on the eatery’s host station if he needed the ladies faraway from the premises.
“Something we will do. Trespass, sure, cuff them please,” the person responded.
“We’re not trespassing. You haven’t notified us that we’re trespassing,” Flanagan stated.
“Let’s go. I don’t need to arrest you guys,” an officer replied.
After a continued battle after getting the ladies to depart the restaurant and repeated requests for cops to show off their physique cameras, Hannan tells cops that Flanagain is “a (expletive) lawyer. So she is aware of.”
“Properly, that’s bull (expletive) lawyer stuff. In order that’s not true,” the officer fired again.
“I’m an AG. I’m an AG,” Flanagan replied, to which the officer yelled, “Good for you. I don’t give a (expletive). Let’s go.”
“You’re going to remorse it. I’m an A—,” Flanagan stated as an officer slammed the cruiser’s door, chopping her off mid-sentence.
Timothy Rondeau, a spokesperson for the Lawyer Basic’s Workplace, informed the Boston Globe on Monday that Flanagan’s request for cops to chop the cameras doesn’t replicate statewide coverage and solely applies to victims and witnesses of crimes.
When a member of the general public objects to being recorded on a bodycam, an officer “might decide whether or not to proceed with recording,” based on the Newport Police Division’s coverage, which additionally notes consent shouldn’t be essential to file, the outlet stated.
Flanagan “was instantly uncooperative, questioning our authority and demanding I flip my physique digital camera off,” an officer wrote in a police report obtained by the outlet.
The state’s Lawyer Basic’s Workplace instantly launched a overview of the incident, based on the publication.
Flanagan was later arraigned in court docket, based on authorities.
The Rhode Island Lawyer Basic’s Workplace didn’t instantly reply to The Submit’s request for remark.
