Prosecutor to Arresting Cops: 'You're Going to Regret This!'

A Rhode Island prosecutor arrested this week at a Newport restaurant tried to get an arresting officer to turn off his body camera—which didn't happen, and which is why we now know some of the things she said during that interaction. "I want you to turn your bodycam off," Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Hogan Flanagan can be heard telling the cop in the footage taken Tuesday at Clarke Cooke House, where she and a friend had apparently been asked to leave the Bannister's Wharf eatery, per NBC News. "Protocol is that you turn it off. It's a citizen request [to] turn it off."

The officer not only doesn't turn the bodycam off—he notes to the two women that he didn't want to have to arrest them, to which Hogan Flanagan replies, "You're not going to arrest us." Police once again proved the prosecutor wrong, initiating the arrest during which Hogan Flanagan repeatedly says, "I'm an AG, I'm an AG," referring to her attorney general status. A police officer replies, "Good for you. I don't give a f---." As she and friend Veronica Hannan are handcuffed and placed into a police vehicle, Hogan Flanagan is also heard exclaiming, "You're gonna regret this!"

It's not clear why the women were asked to leave the restaurant in the first place, but both were hit with a willful trespass charge, according to police. Hannan was also charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest after video showed her getting out of her handcuffs at one point and kicking the door of the police vehicle as officers attempted to close it. Her lawyer tells the New York Post that his client was simply trying to turn down the temperature when "s--- hit the fan" during the "fast and furious" incident.

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"Police were putting their hands on her [and her husband], and from what I saw, nobody except for Veronica was trying to slow things down," attorney John Grasso says. State prosecutors are reviewing details of the case. "At this time, we are unable to comment further on this matter as it relates to personnel issues," a rep for the Rhode Island AG's office says in a statement.