NEWPORT, R.I. (WPRI) – Police in Rhode Island have released body-worn camera footage from the night of August 14, when a local assistant attorney general was arrested and charged with trespassing at a restaurant.

Officers were called to downtown Newport last week for reports of customers refusing to leave the Clark Cooke House restaurant, Nexstar's WPRI previously reported.

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.

Newly released bodycam footage shows officers approaching Flanagan, who 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.

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