A Rhode Island assistant attorney general tried to use her position to avoid arrest
Bing AI image of police officers and a woman.
A Police body camera video shows Devon Flanagan, Special Assistant Attorney General, and her friend being approached by the police. The establishment that called the police informed them that these women were trespassing. The police officer asked them to leave as they were trespassing, but the women refused to leave. Flanagan told the officer that he had to turn his camera off upon her request, then tried to inform him of the job that she did. The police didn’t care. Both Flanagan and her friend were ultimately placed in cuffs and placed in the back seat of separate police vehicles.
From Fox News:
The Rhode Island assistant attorney general, whose arrest went viral earlier this week after she seemingly tried to use her position to evade arrest, telling officers they’d “regret” putting her behind bars, will be placed on unpaid leave.
Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Flanagan, who was arrested for trespassing, was placed on paid leave directly after the incident while the Rhode Island Attorney General’s office reviewed the matter. But, starting Monday, Flanagan will go on unpaid leave, the office told Fox News Digital.
It is unclear how long Flanagan will remain on unpaid leave until a final determination is made on her employment. The Attorney General’s office did not respond to additional questions about its ongoing review of the matter, or when it might make a final decision.
State payroll records, according to the Boston Globe, show that Flanagan was raking in approximately $113,000 a year in her position as a Special Assistant Attorney General.
“I’m an AG! I’m an AG!” Flanagan could be heard saying to police as they tried to detain her for failing to comply with their demands. “You’re going to regret this. You’re going to regret it. I’m an A-” Flanagan said as she was escorted to the back of a police car and the door was shut.
“Good for you, I don’t give a s—,” one of the arresting officers can be heard saying back at one point.
Additional Reading:
Schemmel, A. (2025, August 23). Rhode Island prosecutor in viral arrest video placed on unpaid leave, job future unclear. Fox News. Link.
Category: "Teh Stoopid", Society
Good on the police.
“You have to turn off your body camera on request.” Um. No. But that’s just what she was hoping the officer WOULD do, so she could spin her BS another way later.
This is why no one is impressed when anyone passes the bar exam.
I’ve read a few places that in RI, a victim or (maybe?) a witness can ask to not be recorded, but hey, it’s the interwebz, maybe it’s true, maybe not.
It seems that Newport police policy is that officers must turn off their camera when a non-confrontational victim or witness requests it. Can police shut off their body camera? RI AG’s arrest raises questions
If that’s true, I would hardly say she fit the bill as “non-confrontational.”
She was neither, so oh well. At my old agency the policy was to only turn it off with vetted CIs. A lot of other departments are the same way. The issue there is if there is a video it is open to discovery and you can get your CI killed.
Her: “You have to turn off your body camera on request.”
Unhear her: So I can accuse of one or more of the following…
Excessive force
Sexual assault
4th Amendment violation
ect, ect, ect…
These cops were too smart to fall for that. You also know if she’s this much of a bitch to the cops just imagine what she was like to the staff. I saw the video clip, and the cop asks the host/maître d’ if he wants to press charges and he said “Yes. Trespassing” immediately without hesitation. The video title should have been title “How to torpedo your career with less 2 bottles of wine: follow for more useful tips”.
Well, I was quite impressed when I discovered I passed it the first time I took it. I was certain I hadn’t passed. A gal who was in my class took it nine times before she finally passed it.
But since I spent over 36 years lawering, I must admit that many of the lawers I dealt with were incredibly clueless. I am glad I am no longer one.
Respect! We were taught that ‘“a good name is more to be desired than great riches…” “Remember who you are and what you represent.” “Honor thy father and thy mother.” My family was just average ‘mericans and we were taught to appreciate every privilege and share with those less fortunate. I’m sick of these obnoxious women but very grateful LEO resolved their dilemma by giving them a ride to the pokey. Their capacity for alcohol exceeded their wisdom and they needed a little rest.
Anymore I’m under the impression that many Law Schools will admit anyone who will pay their tuition.
Right up there with getting a Commercial Driver’s License. Didn’t Hunter Biden pass the bar exam? Just wondering if he ever actually tried a case before a judge where he was not the defendant.
I am reasonably certain he never did try a case. Daddy got him his first lawer job with MBNA. By now he has had plenty of litigation experience, but mostly as a defendant or respondent.
Hunter? When was he ever not under the influence?
That should be fun! Where do I sign up? Can we audit the courses? It would fascinating/shocking to observe what is being taught/misrepresented in university lectures! As taxpayers and alumni/alumna donors don’t we have a right/need to access audit reports and reviews of our investment? Too much money is wasted complying with DEI which is bs.
She wanted to be a Boss Level Karen.
Girlbosses love their girlbossing. They feel terribly entitled when given some authority.
Arrogant know-nothing and/or mom that treats employees like a little kid. Too often, that’s what ya get.
Personal experience on the day job. They typically don’t have military experience or knowledge (do that, eww) either.
Tell me that wasn’t a DEI hire.
Legend has it, she’s still telling people she’s an AG.
The girls in her cell block will be impressed. They will have an actual jailhouse lawyer.
AKA, Shithouse lawyers
She should’ve stuck to sexual favors. Just sayin’.
I won’t go into a tirade about not drinking. I feel better–no more waking up dry heaving or vomiting until I get that first drink. Blood pressure and heart rate are normal for the first time in 20 years. Etc. etc. It’d be nice to be able to have a casual beer or glass of whiskey, but I’m not able to. When it comes to drinking, call me Laura Branigan, because I have no self-control.
Of all the thousands of gallons of bourbon and other liquors, and tens of thousands of beers (I’m not going to try to tally up exact amounts, but I was up to three gallons of whiskey a week, and in my beer drinking days could easily down 25-30 on a day off–hell, as a Recruiter, I’d drink 6-8 before making phone calls in the mornings), one thing I never did was act the fool in public. Well, maybe I should correct that, I was in Grand Central Terminal telling one of my almost-as-drunk Team Leaders that the “road to Wrestlemania was right down that tunnel” in my best Hulk Hogan voice in 2014, but I digress. I’ve acted the fool plenty but always ghosted out before police became involved.
My point is a “fun” night out turned into this lady becoming a laughingstock for the entire country. Quite likely, her inability to handle a few glasses of wine will have repercussions well beyond her waking up with a mild headache the next day. Oh well, play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Maybe she can refresh her understanding of the body camera policy.
Oh, and didn’t mean the above as the tirade I stated I wouldn’t go into. I have nothing against alcohol when it’s used responsibly (damn, I sound like a public service bot). I just had to stop drinking. No 12-step program, medication, milestones, or anything else. When I went in for a doubleoscopy (colonoscopy and endoscopy) a few months back, the doctor asked my sobriety date. I don’t know, check the hospital records when I got admitted for the seizure after cutting back from 30+ drinks to a couple over the course of a day or two. Oops… 🤷♂️
If I sound like a whining little
bitchRhode Island Assistant AG, blame my liver. 😁“nothing against alcohol when it’s used responsibly”
Link sausage over two scrambled and a cold beer in lieu
of Sunday morning mass.
I used to love having an early morning beer. When I lived in Pembroke, GA (you could see the dot representing my house on the Fort Stewart training area map), my Sunday mornings were often spent driving into town, or occasionally Statesboro or Savannah, taking dirt roads whenever possible, with the lab barking away in the bed of the truck while I sipped on a beer in the cab.
As long as we’re quoting lyrics
“the beer I had for breakfast wasn’t bad, so I had one for dessert”
Johnny Paycheck used to be my pace man. “I drank fifteen beers…” Yep, and that was just getting started. Johnny Russell was a good listen when I was drinking some Pabst. When I returned from Iraq I got on a big Hank III kick for a while. He blends hellbilly music with a punk attitude and a voice similar to his grandfather’s. That was the soundtrack to the closest thing I got to hell raising. Looking back, it’s amazing how much alcohol was a part of my life. My dad was a life-long drinker–when he was around my age (mid-40s) he was told to quit drinking, or it would kill him. He quit the hard stuff but switched to Boone’s Farm and beer. Some of my fonder memories are of drinking Country Kwencher and Strawberry Hill while crabbing in the marshes in Maryland or driving his ’79 Chevy short bed to the IGA with a Milwaukee’s Best in my lap, aged around 8 or 9. It catches up with most of us. My dad made it to 73. He got sick, stayed in bed for weeks, and developed sepsis. I found out about him being in the hospital when I was still on my “no driving” 72-hour period after Afghanistan. I’d picked up my truck, bought a bunch of beer, and checked into the Hinesville Motel 6 only hoursd before getting the call. My brother and I were smuggling beers up to the hospital room, and he’d give our dad a sip. I figured I’d be like that one day… a once-near invincible man reduced to begging for a sip of alcohol on what amounted to a death bed. He made it a few more months but passed after going to rehab. Glad I stopped. I still need to see the liver specialist, until then I just tell people I have half a liver. My lab results went from borderline anemic and cholesterol through the roof to almost normal besides pre-diabetes only a few months after my last drink. If I drag my ass to Anytime Fitness and eat just… Read more »
Country cruising.
Good on you, man. I’m in your corner cheering for you. Hang on, it may get bumpy, but you CAN do this.
Congrats on remaining dry, fm.
I will say when I read this, “When it comes to drinking, call me Laura Branigan, because I have no self-control.”, it was a RED STAR CLUSTER moment that screamed – invite this guy to every cookout and drunken bonfire night for the rest of your life!
Thanks. Decaf unsweetened tea, Pepsi w/ real sugar (and soon Coke), and Liquid Death keep me hydrated now…
Laura Branigan is one of my favorite singers. I used to sing that song to myself walking to the Koehle DFAC on Bagram for midnight chow.
Laura Branigan – Self Control (Official Music Video), Full HD (Digitally Remastered and Upscaled)
There’s something kind of haunting about “Gloria”, and it’s nice hearing it still on regular play in stores:
Laura Branigan – Gloria (Official Music Video)
Then there’s this cover, sixteen years after this performance, she managed to both die young and live forever: Laura Branigan – Forever Young – Una Vez Mas
The semi official song of the St. Louis Blues hockey team.
https://bleedinblue.com/posts/st-louis-blues-play-gloria-01j08qgq5hyy
You have that ailment where one drink is one too many and ten aren’t enough. My son has that too, but he has now been sober for three years.
Not exactly street justice… but I’d hit it!
Does an assistant AG need to be an actual attorney?
Yes, but it does not mean she is an actual litigator. I would guesstimate that only about 30 percent of attorneys actually appear in court on litigation. Many attorneys in state AG offices have non-litigation jobs. Most state or city employed attorneys never get up in front of a trial judge and jury.
Judge says to the drunk, stand up before the bar sir.
The drunk says, I’m buying….
Oh looky! Someone’s being held accountable!
Well, sort of. The state AG also discussed firing a guy for DUI then hiring him back.
Anyone who will be surprised when she gets fired then later quietly rehired, raise your hands.
“Stay home till this blows over…”
It seems the tides are turning on different matters that seemed impossible just a few short months ago, so maybe we’ll all be surprised.
Yep, a 24K Karen with a heavy case of “DO YOU KNOW who I am?” syndrome, I bet she’s a real joy to work for or deal with, a “Mommy and Daddy’s little girl” who’s never been held accountable, the Prom Princess who HAS to always think she’s in charge, and I wonder if she didn’t get the job she had because of family connections? That happens all the time in Government halls.
Her “man” would make a great dependapotomus!
If one watches the “arrest”, she was “arrested” on a “public street”, for TRESPASSING, not in the bar/diner. Not standing up for her actions, far from it.
Seems like the abrasive drunk friend isn’t getting any love on this thread! She was even worst than “The AG” (TM) on the original video. I’m confident she could pull off her own full thread.
If Hack Stone was ever in a situation where a law enforcement officer told Hack “If you do not vacate the premises, you will be arrested for trespassing”, Hack Stone would thank the officer for the free advice and move along. What’s the point of arguing? The cop doesn’t want you there. The business doesn’t want you there. They are not going to allow you to order food and/or drink. Just call on it a night and you won’t have to be calling a lawer.
The Beta Husband was cracking me up…!!!!
Never mind the lawyer. The one that amused me more was her friend. First, she says, “she’s a fucking lawyer! She knows!” in response to lawyer telling the cop to turn off his body cam.
But the real fun started when she realized that she was going to jail! Reminded me of many of the arrests that I made of women when I was a beat cop. They have a tendency to get really, REALLY upset that a cop would have the temerity to hook them up. She really went to town. Very amusing.
For reals, especially the ones who had never been arrested before and always seemed to get out of tickets. Their minds have trouble adapting when the situation changes.