NEWPORT, R.I. (WPRI) — Police have released body-worn camera footage from the night a Rhode Island assistant attorney general was arrested for trespassing last week.

Officers were called to 24 Bannister's Wharf in Newport late Thursday night for reports of customers refusing to leave.

Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Flanagan was arrested, according to the R.I. Attorney General's Office. Police said she was summoned to court on a willful trespass charge.

As officers approached Flanagan, she pointed at one of them and said, "I want you to turn your bodycam off. Protocol is that you turn it off if a citizen requests that you turn it off."

"She's a lawyer. She's a lawyer," a woman next to Flanagan added.

An officer then tried to deescalate the situation, saying, "So they want you

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