RI prosecutor order cops to turn-off bodycams during arrest
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I’m an AG. I’m an AG,” Flanagan said, to which the officer yelled, “Good for you. I don’t give a (expletive). Let’s go.”
Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Hogan Flanagan and a friend had been asked to leave Clarke Cooke House in Newport when officers arrived, police video showed.
The Rhode Island AG says one of his prosecutor employees, who previously worked in the Suffolk DA’s Office, “embarrassed herself” after she tried to use her title to block her arrest
Police video shows a state prosecutor telling officers it is “protocol” for them to turn off the camera if “a citizen” asks them to do so. Experts say that’s not true.
“It was after all, fast and furious,” attorney John Grasso told The Post of chaotic bodycam footage that showed his client, Veronica Hannan, and Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Hogan Flanagan cuffed by police for alleged trespassing at the Clarke Cooke House restaurant in Newport on Thursday.
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