Rhode Island prosecutor put on unpaid leave after warning ‘You’re gonna regret this’ during arrest
Providence, RI (AP) – A Rhode Island State Prosecutor received free leave for six months after being caught Police Body Camera Images He warns one of the officers who arrested him on charges of unauthorized entry for his “regret”.
Private Attorney General Devon Flanagan was fined on Monday. State Chief Public Prosecutor Peter Neronha said that on August 14, outside a restaurant in Newport, he said.
Neronha, in a news bulletin, “We hold our lawyers to the highest personal and professional standards, and Mrs. Flanagan clearly did not open these standards,” he said.
Neronha, Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office Spokesman Tim Rondeau met with the officers who participated in the arrest of Flanagan on Monday and apologized. Flanagan also sent letters to individual officers.
According to the police, Flanagan and a friend were arrested after they were asked to leave and reject Clarke Cook House.
Police images show that Flanagan closed the body camera from an officer several times and then again again, “I am a Ag AG”.
He asks the officers who approach one of the restaurants or if they want to enter without permission ”. The person squeezes his hands and answers, “Trespass, yes. Cresses, please”.
When Officer said Flanagan and the people with him, he said that we do not enter without permission, you did not inform us that we entered without permission ..
The officer, who is not defined in the video, says, ne What did I say to you? You are entering without permission ”.
“I am a Ag. I am a AG, Flan Flanagan says later.
“Good for you,” he says.
Eventually, Flanagan is put in a patrol tool and says, “Buddy, you will regret it. You will regret it.”
In Rhode Island, a conviction for a deliberate unauthorized entry, imprisonment of up to a year, a fine of up to $ 1,000, or to both. If he is convicted, it is not clear whether Flanagan will still work at the Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office.
Flanagan’ın said in a statement explaining that Neronha, “the seriousness of his behavior and the corrective changes in his life reflecting that he hopes, he said.
Orum I believe in a long way in front of him, but in the long run, our worst moments can inspire us to be better people, ”he said.
According to the Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, Flanagan has worked in the highest level office of the state for nearly seven years and was appointed to the appeal of the penal department when he was arrested.
