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In an image taken from police body camera footage, Newport Police officers interacting with Rhode Island Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Flanagan, in red, and her companions after restaurant representatives indicated that they did not want them on their premises, an encounter that ended with officers detaining Flanagan on trespassing charges, Aug. 14, 2025, in Newport, R.I. (Newport Police Department via AP)

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A Rhode Island state prosecutor was put on unpaid leave for six months after she was captured on police body camera footage warning one of the officers who were arresting her on a trespassing charge that he was “gonna regret it.”

Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Flanagan was given the punishment Monday. It stemmed from her Aug. 14 trespas

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