A Rhode Island state prosecutor who used to work within the Suffolk DA’s Workplace has been positioned on unpaid go away after she berated police exterior of a Newport restaurant and tried to leverage her job title to dam her arrest.
Particular Assistant Lawyer Normal Devon Flanagan Hogan has not labored since police charged her with willful trespassing on Aug. 14 in an altercation that went viral throughout the nation.
However beginning on Monday, Flanagan’s absence from the workplace can be unpaid, in accordance with a spokesman for the Rhode Island AG.
The spokesman didn’t specify how lengthy Flanagan will stay off the job and whether or not she is going to face additional circumstances on her employment if and when she returns to work.
“Buddy, you’re gonna regret this. You’re gonna regret it,” Flanagan is heard telling a police officer on physique digicam footage whereas being positioned inside a cruiser in the course of the incident. “I’m an AG.”
The Newport Police Division arrested Flanagan final Thursday after officers responded to the Clarke Cooke Home restaurant at about 9:51 p.m. for a report of an “unwanted party,” in accordance with an incident report, which indicated alcohol was concerned.
Footage captures an officer getting out of his cruiser, with Flanagan repeatedly ordering him to show off his physique cam. “Protocol is that you turn it off if a citizen requests to turn it off,” Flanagan mentioned.
The Windfall Journal reported that, in accordance with division protocol, Newport officers can flip off physique cameras if a witness or sufferer requests it and the scene is non-confrontational.
Based on Massachusetts payroll information, by way of the state Workplace of the Comptroller, Flanagan labored as an assistant district lawyer in Suffolk County in a part of 2017 and 2018.
She made far in need of her annual wage of $48,000, incomes just below $14,000 every year, information present.
Flanagan, a Suffolk Regulation graduate who joined the Rhode Island AG’s Workplace in April 2018, took in $113,921.08 in whole earnings in Fiscal Yr 2025, in accordance with the State of Rhode Island’s Transparency Portal.
Lawyer Normal Peter Neronha mentioned in a radio interview earlier this week that Particular Assistant Flanagan would face a “strong sanction” stemming from the incident. He added that his worker can be taking “some steps to try to address” her “inexcusable” conduct.
“She knows better,” Neronha mentioned on Windfall’s WPRO on Tuesday. “I’ve got 110 lawyers. She embarrassed all of them, in a sense.”
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