Final week, Rhode Island Particular Assistant Legal professional Normal Devon Hogan Flanagan was arrested and charged with trespassing after an alcohol-fueled incident in entrance of a restaurant. And that may be dangerous sufficient, however the arresting officer’s body cam footage was released and it tells a story that’ll be loads tougher to stay down than a misdemeanor arrest.
The incident demonstrated the utmost in entitlement. Hogan Flanagan and a good friend have been requested to vacate the premises of a Newport restaurant, they usually refused each the enterprise’s and police requests to take action.
The footage exhibits the prosecutor misstating the legislation as she calls for the cops shut off their bodycams (they refuse as she was a suspect, not a sufferer).
Practically a dozen instances Hogan Flanagan repeats, “I’m an A.G., I’m an A.G.,” as she’s being ushered into the police cruiser.
As if the authorized model of “don’t you recognize who I’m?” wasn’t sufficient, Hogan Flanagan tops it with this kiss of loss of life: “Buddy, you’re gonna remorse this. You’re gonna remorse it.”
Oh, that appears like foreshadowing.
The Rhode Island legal professional normal’s workplace mentioned in an announcement, “The Workplace instantly started a evaluation of the incident, which we anticipate will conclude throughout the subsequent few days.” However the precise RI Legal professional Normal, Peter Neronha, had harsher words, saying she’d obtain a “robust sanction” together with a “suspension with out pay” *if* he decides to retain her with the workplace.
“Look, she’s put me in a nasty place. She’s embarrassed herself, humiliated herself, handled the Newport Police Division horribly,” Neronha mentioned. “She goes to take some steps to attempt to deal with that within the subsequent day or so.”
“It was inexcusable conduct,” he mentioned. “She is aware of higher. … I’ve bought 110 attorneys. She embarrassed all of them, in a way.”
Anyone positive regrets the incident, however it isn’t the cop.
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