Rhode Island Assistant Attorney General Devon Flanagan arrested for disorderly conduct and trespassing in Newport

[Dan Druff]

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Always satisfying to see entitled "public servants" who believe they deserve special treatment get comeuppance.

All she had to do was leave the premises of the restaurant kicking her out, and none of this would have happened.


Flanagan has been employed with the office for seven years and works in the Appellate Unit of the Criminal Division. Her office is reviewing the situation and might fire her.

This occurred on August 14. She and her friend Veronica Hannan were refusing to leave the restaurant at closing time, and police were called. Hannan was the one who aggressively resisted detention at the end of the video.

Flanagan was charged with Willful Trespass, while Hannan was charged with Willful Trespass, Disorderly Conduct, and Resisting Arrest.

It's not clear why the cuck husbands/boyfriends of these women didn't just remove them from the premises when they were acting drunk and unreasonable, rather than letting it escalate to this point. Flanagan is 34 years old, but appears older -- maybe from years of hard drinking.

[tgull]

Assistant AGs are a dime a dozen, its sounds like a great title but its basically just a government lawyer. Many of the larger states will have 20 or 30 of them, serving various roles, mostly reviewing contracts and enforcing statutes. They generally start out around $80,000, which barely would cover living expenses when you factor in student loans. Then you simply get cost of living raises. I assume it would be a good resume' builder though for a jump over to private practice or a large firm down the road.

[country978]

The 2 guys should just start dating each other because they're definitely fags. The women are insufferable cunts. If this was a 1st date type of thing then the dudes have a chance and can get away but if they've known all along their "ladies" are psycho drunks and they still choose to stay with them, oh man are they in for a tough life

[Tellafriend]

Assistant AGs are a dime a dozen, its sounds like a great title but its basically just a government lawyer. Many of the larger states will have 20 or 30 of them, serving various roles, mostly reviewing contracts and enforcing statutes. They generally start out around $80,000, which barely would cover living expenses when you factor in student loans. Then you simply get cost of living raises. I assume it would be a good resume' builder though for a jump over to private practice or a large firm down the road.

it is typically a job for someone who couldn't get a job with a big firm or cut it on their own, so they go back to easy guvment work w the benefits that come w it. they are a dime a dozen and states have dozens of them. she's nobody.

[Kuntmissioner]

Assistant AGs are a dime a dozen, its sounds like a great title but its basically just a government lawyer. Many of the larger states will have 20 or 30 of them, serving various roles, mostly reviewing contracts and enforcing statutes. They generally start out around $80,000, which barely would cover living expenses when you factor in student loans. Then you simply get cost of living raises. I assume it would be a good resume' builder though for a jump over to private practice or a large firm down the road.

it is typically a job for someone who couldn't get a job with a big firm or cut it on their own, so they go back to easy guvment work w the benefits that come w it. they are a dime a dozen and states have dozens of them. she's nobody.

As her own boss (RI AG) stated, she embarrassed herself and 110 other lawyers in the office.

[Dan Druff]

It's absolutely awful to date someone who is an angry/disorderly drunk. You frequently find yourself in situations like these.

These two cucks should run far, far away.

Can you imagine what these two women are like at home when they're drinking?

Amazing that all of this happened because they didn't just leave a restaurant at closing time, as instructed. It takes awhile for a restaurant to call the police in this situation, especially when it involves two women. I can only imagine what preceded this. You can tell how exasperated the restaurant staff was.

Funny how both women believed they were the victims, and honestly thought the police were going to get in trouble.

[Dan Druff]

The 2 guys should just start dating each other because they're definitely fags. The women are insufferable cunts. If this was a 1st date type of thing then the dudes have a chance and can get away but if they've known all along their "ladies" are psycho drunks and they still choose to stay with them, oh man are they in for a tough life

I think both of them are married to the women here. How they allowed themselves to get to this point is a mystery.

[desertrunner]

Why I like PFA experience- we sometimes get the good stories posted here.

Always satisfying to see entitled "public servants" who believe they deserve special treatment get comeuppance.

Its too bad this one cunt hurts the image of public servants.

All she had to do was leave the premises of the restaurant kicking her out, and none of this would have happened.

Exactly. This is what we see now from the snowflakes growing up - I am entitled and can do whatever I want.

Flanagan has been employed with the office for seven years and works in the Appellate Unit of the Criminal Division. Her office is reviewing the situation and might fire her.

Hope they do as my letter on her is in the mail.

It's not clear why the cuck husbands/boyfriends of these women didn't just remove them from the premises when they were acting drunk and unreasonable, rather than letting it escalate to this point. Flanagan is 34 years old, but appears older -- maybe from years of hard drinking.

The beta husbands should have indeed handled it better and all left the scene. This is another reason why I prefer not to drink in public as I have too much to lose. I usually consume alcohol at home or a hotel room.

Best parts of the video- Video mark 3:01- "I'm an AG" as the police car door slams close on her. And video mark 3:17- cop as he slaps away husband- "Get outta here."

IFunny how both women believed they were the victims, and honestly thought the police were going to get in trouble.

Exactly, too funny. Typical entitled women who think "because I'm pretty" that nothing can happen to them. Add in the AG title on top of that, so much worse.

[Dan Druff]

Funny how both women believed they were the victims, and honestly thought the police were going to get in trouble.

Exactly, too funny. Typical entitled women who think "because I'm pretty" that nothing can happen to them.

My assessment of the situation is that each woman had their own reason for feeling entitled to special treatment.

Flanagan let the "power" of her unremarkable position (assistant AG) go to her head, to where she believed she was above the law. Notice that at one point she obnoxiously stated, "You're not going to arrest me" and at the end, "You're going to regret this". She believed that she was a queen and had vast immunity to any enforcement.

Her friend, Veronica Hannan, was the one who seemed to have the "pretty privilege" thing going on. It was interesting how she was repeatedly calling for help from her cuck husband while being arrested. I'm assuming she's used to manipulating men into helping her whenever she gets into a jam. Of course, the cuck hubsand wanted no part of getting arrested himself, so he just gently kept saying, "Just relax, just calm down" when she was calling for him. Dude was probably afraid he'd be screamed at all night if he forcefully pulled her away from the restaurant (before the cops showed up), so that's probably why he just stood back and didn't get her out of there before it escalated.

100% if I had a wife/girlfriend acting that way, and she was refusing to leave and likely to cause her own arrest, I would grab her and physically move her off property for her own good.

[desertrunner]

Exactly, too funny. Typical entitled women who think "because I'm pretty" that nothing can happen to them.

My assessment of the situation is that each woman had their own reason for feeling entitled to special treatment.

Flanagan let the "power" of her unremarkable position (assistant AG) go to her head, to where she believed she was above the law. Notice that at one point she obnoxiously stated, "You're not going to arrest me" and at the end, "You're going to regret this". She believed that she was a queen and had vast immunity to any enforcement.

Druff- Yep, I just didnt feel the need to deep dive the obvious here and speaking in generality. But in general, most pretty women abuse the pretty looks thing and this AG took played the card too hard in addition to her baseline entitlement.

[country978]

These guys are both Fredo

[Dan Druff]

I think I might have told this story before, but I'll tell it again anyway.

About 30 years ago I was at a house party in the San Fernando Valley. I only knew a few people there, but one of them was a female acquaintance I had known for about 1-2 years. My impression of her prior to the party was positive. She was always nice, softspoken, and sweet in our interactions. We even almost dated at one point when we first knew each other, but for whatever reason it just didn't happen. She was a short, skinny, fairly pretty white girl, in her mid-20s. Turned out I really dodged a bullet.

At this party, something was wrong with her. She was drinking a lot, but I think she also may have taken some pills or done some drugs which were interacting with the alcohol, and she went absolutely insane. First she was getting angry and was yelling at people and insulting everyone. She wasn't aiming any of this at me, but I was shocked to see the difference in her behavior. However, then it escalated, and when people weren't giving her the reaction she wanted, she started to pick up objects in the house and throw them at people. Then, when that wasn't getting enough of a reaction, she was picking up large/dangerous objects and throwing those at the same people. Again, none of this was aimed at me, but I was getting increasingly uncomfortable watching all of this, and felt like something needed to be done before she hurt someone. She was also trashing the house, and the owner wasn't there at the moment, and I felt really bad for him, as well.

All of the dudes around there were just standing around and doing nothing about it, including the ones who were the targets of the objects she was throwing!

Finally I decided I had to be the one to take action, because no one else would. I grabbed her and said, "I'm not letting you go until you calm down and agree to stop throwing things." She just yelled back, "Fuck you! Let go of me, asshole! I'm not agreeing to shit! Let go of me now!"

Then she started to struggle to get out of my grip, and was screaming at the top of her lungs. Everyone was still standing there shocked, not knowing what to do. I told someone to call the police immediately.

In the meantime, her struggles made her fall on the floor, and I held her down there. I was holding her in a manner to where she wouldn't get hurt, but also to where it would be difficult for her to get up. She kept screaming for help, but of course everyone knew I was doing this for good reason, and supported it. I told her that help was indeed coming, and that the police were coming to sort this out. I promised to let her go as soon as the police arrived. Of course, she kept screaming.

I was nervous that perhaps the police would walk in, hear the screaming, and erroneously believe I was the aggressor or perpetrator. I told everyone to make sure the police knew that I was helping, and that I was simply holding her until they arrived.

Fortunately the police were very cool about the whole thing and completely understood. She ranted to them about how I was assaulting her, but was incoherent and crazy, and I calmly told them that they could ask any of the witnesses here about me, and that I was simply holding her to prevent her from throwing dangerous items at other people. I explained that she was having some kind of mental breakdown, likely induced by drugs and alcohol. It was very clear to them that I was telling the truth, as she was babbling and incoherent. The police thanked me for preventing it from escalating further than it did, and took her away to a mental hospital.

I never saw or spoke to her again. I always wondered what would have happened if I didn't intervene.

[tgull]

Assistant AGs are a dime a dozen, its sounds like a great title but its basically just a government lawyer. Many of the larger states will have 20 or 30 of them, serving various roles, mostly reviewing contracts and enforcing statutes. They generally start out around $80,000, which barely would cover living expenses when you factor in student loans. Then you simply get cost of living raises. I assume it would be a good resume' builder though for a jump over to private practice or a large firm down the road.

it is typically a job for someone who couldn't get a job with a big firm or cut it on their own, so they go back to easy guvment work w the benefits that come w it. they are a dime a dozen and states have dozens of them. she's nobody.

Yeah a few years ago, I knew someone that was an Assistant AG, I thought wow, what a great position. Then I learned he was simply a state lawyer that did some Environmental bullshit reviewing some new codes on water heaters or something, one of like 25 Assistant AGs. For some reason, at least for a fleeting moment I thought the Assistant AG was prosecuting Mob bosses or something, yeah no. They are just grunts doing code enforcement or reviewing contracts.

[desertrunner]

UPDATE-

FEELING THE FALLOUT: Rhode Island assistant AG caught on viral arrest video telling cops they’d “regret” jailing her is moved from paid to unpaid leave as her job hangs in the balance.

[Dan Druff]

A very good rule of thumb to live by, involving police:

When you feel you are getting mistreated or unfairly commanded by police, deescalate the situation and do as they say. Then give it a day or so and reflect on what happened (when you're sober). If you are still convinced they violated policy, go to the station and file a complaint. Body cams will usually tell the story.

Had Flanagan done this, she would have sobered up, realized she was acting stupid, and nobody would have ever known about this.

When I was young, I had two encounters with officers in traffic situations where they were definitely abusive and violated policy. Never got beaten or anything like that, but in both cases the officer incorrectly assumed I was on drugs just because I was a young, skinny white guy driving late at night. They acted very abusively because I wouldn't "admit" to being on drugs when they pulled me over. I regret in both situations not reporting both of them later, but in both cases I think they realized they fucked up and didn't write me a ticket, so I called it a wash. In one of the cases, I was actually put in cuffs while the guy searched my car -- which I consented to him doing just so he'd see I wasn't on drugs. (I wouldn't do the latter today, due to the rise of civil forfeiture bullshit!) But I do give myself credit for trying my best the entire way to deescalate both situations, and eventually doing so successfully. This type of stuff never happens anymore because I'm middle aged, nor am I skinny, so they don't default to assuming I'm a druggie.

[desertrunner]

When I was young, I had two encounters with officers in traffic situations where they were definitely abusive and violated policy.

Next time use the line- "Dont you know who I am?" and try to work in the poker pro angle. And when they ask your name, always say "Druff", they will be cool with that too.

[Ryback_feed_me_more]

A very good rule of thumb to live by, involving police:

When you feel you are getting mistreated or unfairly commanded by police, deescalate the situation and do as they say. Then give it a day or so and reflect on what happened (when you're sober). If you are still convinced they violated policy, go to the station and file a complaint. Body cams will usually tell the story.

Had Flanagan done this, she would have sobered up, realized she was acting stupid, and nobody would have ever known about this.

When I was young, I had two encounters with officers in traffic situations where they were definitely abusive and violated policy. Never got beaten or anything like that, but in both cases the officer incorrectly assumed I was on drugs just because I was a young, skinny white guy driving late at night. They acted very abusively because I wouldn't "admit" to being on drugs when they pulled me over. I regret in both situations not reporting both of them later, but in both cases I think they realized they fucked up and didn't write me a ticket, so I called it a wash. In one of the cases, I was actually put in cuffs while the guy searched my car -- which I consented to him doing just so he'd see I wasn't on drugs. (I wouldn't do the latter today, due to the rise of civil forfeiture bullshit!) But I do give myself credit for trying my best the entire way to deescalate both situations, and eventually doing so successfully. This type of stuff never happens anymore because I'm middle aged, nor am I skinny, so they don't default to assuming I'm a druggie.

Problem is Druff filing a complaint usually ends with them circular filing it, claim they investigated and found no basis. There are tons of stories of this crap on the internet on John Bryan's Civil Rights Lawyer channel. Some of the video and stories will shock you from a cop basically breaking a dude's neck and then claiming he was faking it (lawsuit is still on going but unfortunately he died so its his family who will get the settlement). Then there was the cop who thought he was in WWE and body slammed a teenager needlessly (he was fired subsequently) all these cases have bodycam footage associated with them and all were reported but the agency cleared the wrong doing. Dont get me wrong there are a vast majority of good cops out there but the numbers of bullies with badges who somehow slept through use of force and Constitutional law power is insane.

[Dan Druff]

A very good rule of thumb to live by, involving police:

When you feel you are getting mistreated or unfairly commanded by police, deescalate the situation and do as they say. Then give it a day or so and reflect on what happened (when you're sober). If you are still convinced they violated policy, go to the station and file a complaint. Body cams will usually tell the story.

Had Flanagan done this, she would have sobered up, realized she was acting stupid, and nobody would have ever known about this.

When I was young, I had two encounters with officers in traffic situations where they were definitely abusive and violated policy. Never got beaten or anything like that, but in both cases the officer incorrectly assumed I was on drugs just because I was a young, skinny white guy driving late at night. They acted very abusively because I wouldn't "admit" to being on drugs when they pulled me over. I regret in both situations not reporting both of them later, but in both cases I think they realized they fucked up and didn't write me a ticket, so I called it a wash. In one of the cases, I was actually put in cuffs while the guy searched my car -- which I consented to him doing just so he'd see I wasn't on drugs. (I wouldn't do the latter today, due to the rise of civil forfeiture bullshit!) But I do give myself credit for trying my best the entire way to deescalate both situations, and eventually doing so successfully. This type of stuff never happens anymore because I'm middle aged, nor am I skinny, so they don't default to assuming I'm a druggie.

Problem is Druff filing a complaint usually ends with them circular filing it, claim they investigated and found no basis. There are tons of stories of this crap on the internet on John Bryan's Civil Rights Lawyer channel. Some of the video and stories will shock you from a cop basically breaking a dude's neck and then claiming he was faking it (lawsuit is still on going but unfortunately he died so its his family who will get the settlement). Then there was the cop who thought he was in WWE and body slammed a teenager needlessly (he was fired subsequently) all these cases have bodycam footage associated with them and all were reported but the agency cleared the wrong doing. Dont get me wrong there are a vast majority of good cops out there but the numbers of bullies with badges who somehow slept through use of force and Constitutional law power is insane.

Sometimes you can get satisfaction through these complaints, sometimes you can't.

Sometimes you can at least get the officer disciplined, but the matter isn't lawsuit-worthy. I'd say my two situations in the early '90s would have both fallen in that category. Of course, there were no bodycams then, so I might have had a harder time proving it. There also might have been a lack of respect shown to my complaints, given my age at the time.

Anyway, the worst thing you can do is escalate or refuse directions.

If an officer tells you to leave somewhere, you can try to calmly explain why you don't need to leave, but if he's not having it, you need to go. Doesn't matter if you think it's your right to be there.

Same with any other interaction with police. Deescalate now, deal with it later.