The Rhode Island assistant attorney general will be placed on unpaid leave after resisting arrest in a viral video from Aug. 14.
Devon Flanagan will be placed on unpaid leave starting Monday, following her arrest outside of the Clarke Cooke House on a charge of trespassing, the Rhode Island attorney general’s office told the Rhode Island Current.
In body cam footage posted to X on Thursday, Flanagan was seen telling officers, “Your protocol is if I ask you to turn off the body cam, you have to turn it off, and that’s your protocol.”
Her friend followed up by saying, “She’s a fucking lawyer, so she knows.”
Flanagan pleaded with the officers while they placed her under arrest, saying, “I’m an AG, I’m an AG.”
“You’re going to regret this, you’re going to regret it,” she can be heard telling the police officer while he put her in the back of a police car.
