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Rhode Island Assistant Attorney General Devon Hogan Flanagan was arrested for trespassing and demanded the arresting officer turn off his body camera.

Flanagan incorrectly asserted that police protocol required the officer to deactivate the camera upon her request.

Rhode Island’s statewide policy allows officers to turn off body cameras at the request of victims or witnesses, but not suspects.

A Rhode Island prosecutor's statements about proper police body camera protocol has led the state's police chiefs association to clarify that policy.

"I want you to turn the body camera off," Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Hogan Flanagan said almost as soon as a Newport police officer arrived to encounter her at the request of Clarke Cooke House in Newport with his

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