Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Flanagan mistreated the Newport Police Department and embarrassed herself, the Office, and frankly me,” Attorney General Peter Neronha said.

Devon Flanagan was seen on police body camera footage berating officers outside the Clarke Cooke House during her arrest.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — R.I. Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Flanagan has been placed on unpaid leave for six months, a week and a half after she made national headlines for berating Newport police officers as they arrested her during a night out on the town.