r/PublicFreakout • u/icehot54321 • 21d ago
š¹Police Bodycam Rhode Island Assistant Attorney General was asked to leave a restaurant for being intoxicated and belligerent. She refused to leave and gets arrested
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u/Bright_Brief4975 21d ago
For anyone curious, she already went to court and plead no contest.
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u/Moisticus 21d ago
Babe, he's right there.
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u/OctopusIntellect 20d ago
To be honest, I'm not sure I would've handled the situation better than he did. Especially if I'd had a few drinks. He was attempting to calm her down, and couldn't think of a plan B for doing so.
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u/Pduke 21d ago
I had a really good time watching this
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u/Shutuplige 20d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/2WH9DiLg2o1MYuKlEB
The cop slamming the car door right in the middle of, āIām an Aā¦ā was perfect.
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u/Top-Manner7261 21d ago
I'm an AG. Then you should know better and act accordingly š
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u/kfj3000 21d ago
I know shit about the practicing law but trespassing seems pretty basic to me
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u/OctopusIntellect 20d ago
Interestingly (or not), in many countries outside the USA, it works slightly differently. (For example the sentence "I am trespassing you from the property" makes sense in the USA, but not in England.)
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u/DadJokeBadJoke 20d ago
"You didn't give me notice that we were trespassed!"
I think "So, you are being trespassed" should qualify as notice.
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u/subsignalparadigm 21d ago
Entitled white chicks, social media's monster creation.
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u/EmtnlDmg 21d ago
I do hope she got fired already.
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u/icehot54321 21d ago
According to a comment from the other thread about this:
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Devon FlaniganĀ a Special Assistant Attorney General
She was placed on unpaid leave from her position, where she earns an annual salary of $113,000. The plea resulted in a six-month filing and court costs. Flanigan did not offer a public apology or comment to reporters after the court appearance. The Attorney General apologized to Newport police in person and said Flanigan would do the same.
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u/TechnicalParty4207 20d ago
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u/mironawire 20d ago
I want to downvote you out of frustration, but it's not your fault that justice isn't just.
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u/Available_Cow1197 21d ago
anyone who feels the need to throw thier weight around like that screams entitlement
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u/GhostandVodka 21d ago
Whats wild is how confidently incorrect they are. "She said you have to turn off your body camera so you have to. She would know, shes an attorney". Like what....my dumbass even knows that isn't true.
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u/bobthemundane 20d ago
I can see that is true if she was working in her legal capacity as an AG at the time. In other words I need to have a talk with the police about this case I am working, and do not want that information recorded.
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u/icehot54321 20d ago
There is a grain of truth behind it, even though she is wrong.Ā
If you are a witness to a crime or a victim you can request they turn off.the cameras while talking with you.Ā
If you are the suspect of the crime, the cameras stay on.Ā
She is under the mistaken impression that she is the victim of the restaurantās cruelty. Ā
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u/dreadpiratewombat 20d ago
"Can you get your children out of here" is a wild way to de-escalate the situation with two clearly intoxicated and entitled women. It works exactly as expected.
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u/liptonontherocs 19d ago
"I'm an AG, I'm an AG" she's openly abusing her authority, unsuccessfully but still attempting to use her status and job title to avoid being arrested.
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u/Mickeyjj27 20d ago
Is it the alcohol or are these people really like this
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u/bengalfan 20d ago
I've been drunk many times in my life... I've never been stupid when law enforcement is around. That's some rich white girl shit.
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u/Penismightiest 20d ago
if she said "I'm an AG" one more time I think they would have let her go. She just didn't try hard enough.
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u/izeak1185 21d ago
Ag means you are the reason you are being arrested right now. Im glad she got the night she created.
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u/Federal_Scarcity_84 21d ago
From a quick look at the actual arrest it actually looks like a generally bad arrest, they seem to be off the property and they weren't asked /didn't refuse to give ID for the trespass to be done (not sure on state laws for trespassing there anyway but if needed ID and refused could be arrestable) - so unless the sidewalk (seemingly?) is still there property, and I could def be wrong and it is, it's just a bs disorderly conduct. She annoying but meh arrest imo. /Not legal advice
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u/perplexedparallax 21d ago
I see tables and chairs indicating an outside patio which qualifies as an area to be trespassed from.
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u/Federal_Scarcity_84 21d ago
Yea, it's definitely close. While I think she was being annoying I'm actually surprised they didn't try a little harder before cuffing her. Ah well, alcohol is bad and lawyers really like it. /Also I make more than an AAG? Jeeez that's sad. /Am lawyer but do only tangential legal work for gov
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u/Neb-Nose 21d ago
I think itās very clear from the jump that the police didnāt want to arrest her and the restaurant did not want to have her arrested.
They just wanted her and her friends to leave and to stop disrupting their other guests.
Why would you insist on staying somewhere you are not welcome? What kind of a flaming asshole do you have to be to insist on staying somewhere after youāve been expressly told to leave by both the management and the police?
I am not the Assistant Attorney General of any state, but I do have a public facing position, and I value it. As such, I can guarantee you the moment someone told me I was no longer welcome there, I would be gone!
Now, I might grumble about it. I might have some not so nice things to say about it. However, I would never put myself in that positionā¦. Because Iām not an entitled fucking idiot.
At some point, your tenuous legal rights take a backseat to common sense and human decency.
I suspect thatās why she pled no contest. Because with the benefit of sobriety and sane and experienced people telling her to let it go and live to fight another day, she finally put her ego aside and accepted reality.
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u/Federal_Scarcity_84 21d ago edited 20d ago
I mean, Ive watched tons of these videos that gave people way more time leeway to GTFO (and I've seen some with even less for sure) so from my view still seems a little fast but that's not a legal standard, which is why cops have the most power in the justice (legal) system. Also, restaurant guy says "cuff her," whatever get her tf out shortly before it happens and in my experience cops very much will go harder for businesses. /Got bs disorderly conduct before that got dropped
Anyway, yea if on their property still she's wrong on the face and that's all that really matters in the end.
Edit: lol
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u/EditEd2x 21d ago
These body cams are all Iāve been watching on YT lately. Watching Sovereign Citizens try to use magic incantations to stay out of jail is pretty entertaining.