Video Captures Rhode Island Prosecutor Warn That Officers Will 'regret This' As She's Arrested At Restaurant

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A Rhode Island charismatic told constabulary "you're going to regret this" during a confrontation that ended successful her apprehension which was caught connected an officer's assemblage camera, officials said Tuesday.

Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Hogan Flanagan and a friend had been asked to time off Clarke Cooke House successful Newport erstwhile officers arrived, constabulary video showed.

“I want you to move your bodycam off," Hogan Flanagan instantly tells nan officers. "Protocol is that you move it off. It’s a national petition that you move it off.”

At galore points of nan video, constabulary told nan women this confrontation would beryllium complete if they conscionable near nan Bannister’s Wharf restaurant.

Body cam footage showing Devon Hogan Flanagan and her friend Veronica Hannan

“Let’s go. I don’t want to apprehension you guys” for alleged trespassing, an serviceman down nan camera said.

"You’re not going to apprehension us," Hogan Flanagan responded.

“So let’s leave. We sewage to go. We sewage to go,” nan serviceman replied.

The women stood their crushed extracurricular nan edifice and would not leave.

It wasn't clear successful nan video what sparked their conflict pinch nan edifice aliases why nan women insisted connected staying. An serviceman tin beryllium heard connected camera asking a edifice employee, “Do you conscionable want them out? Do you want them trespassed?”

“Anything we tin do. Trespass, yes,” nan worker said.

Flanagan and her friend kept reminding officers passim nan brushwood that she's a lawyer. "I'm an A.G., I'm an A.G.," Hogan Flanagan explained.

The 2 women were yet handcuffed arsenic Flanagan told police: “You’re going to regret this!"

She continued to say, "I'm an A.G."

As a handcuffed Hogan Flanagan was loaded into nan backmost of a constabulary car, she said 1 much time, "I'm an A," erstwhile nan doorway slammed and trim her disconnected earlier she could get retired a last "G."

The Rhode Island Attorney General's Office identified Hogan Flanagan arsenic a typical adjunct lawyer wide who has been connected nan occupation for 7 years and is assigned to nan Criminal Division's Appellate Unit.

State prosecutors are still reviewing nan incident.

"At this time, we are incapable to remark further connected this matter arsenic it relates to unit issues," A.G. spokesperson Timothy Rondeau told NBC News successful connection connected Tuesday.

Hogan Flanagan was charged pinch willful trespass and fixed a summons to look successful court. A lawyer for her could not beryllium instantly reached for remark connected Tuesday.