A Rhode Island prosecutor allegedly ordered Newport police officers to shut off their body cameras as she was placed in the back of a cruiser on trespassing charges \u2014 warning them they would \u201cregret it,\u201d according to reports and authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police said they encountered Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Hogan Flanagan and her friend, Veronica Hannan, outside the Clarke Cooke House restaurant on Thursday evening while responding to a call about an \u201cunwanted party,\u201d NBC10 reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bodycam footage released by the department shows Flanagan, a Democrat, making threats and attempting to intimidate officers by invoking her position during the confrontation, the New York Post reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As police arrived, the prosecutor told officers, \u201cI want you to turn your bodycam off. Protocol is that you turn it off. It\u2019s a citizen request that you turn it off,\u201d she demanded, according to the footage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThey want you to leave. Let\u2019s just leave,\u201d an officer can be heard telling the two women. In the footage, an officer is also heard asking a man at the restaurant\u2019s host stand whether he wanted the women removed from the property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAnything we can do. Trespass, yes, cuff them, please,\u201d the man replied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe\u2019re not trespassing. You haven\u2019t notified us that we\u2019re trespassing,\u201d Flanagan then insisted, per the footage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n