Democrats love saying, “No one is above the law.”
But that is psychological projection, because we keep seeing entitled Democrats behaving as if they are above the law, pulling rank on cops and generally behaving like entitled brats who think the rules apply to everyone except their precious selves.
Exhibit A this week is Rhode Island Assistant Attorney General Devon Flanagan Hogan, whose drunken antics while resisting arrest outside the upscale Clarke Cooke House in Newport are the latest example of a new genre of viral content: brats resisting arrest.
Police bodycam videos go viral because we all love seeing these people get their comeuppance.
The incident unfolded around 9:51 p.m. last Thursday, Aug. 14, when Flanagan, 34, her friend from college Veronica Hannan, who’s a senior manager at PepsiCo, and Veronica’s poor husband, financial adviser Dan Hannan, were asked to leave Clarke Cooke House for reasons unknown. Judging by the belligerence of the women, it’s not hard to guess why.
The bodycam begins as police arrive to find the women out in front of the restaurant. Flanagan, wearing a short red jumpsuit, is wagging her finger and demanding that the officer stop the bodycam: “Protocol is you turn it off if a citizen requests you turn it off.”
The cop tries to be reasonable: “So they want you guys to leave. Let’s just leave. Let’s make it easy.”
But Flanagan is determined to pull rank. Veronica, in a yellow body-hugging satin dress, keeps telling the cop Flanagan is a lawyer.
Poor Dan implores: “Can we all talk?” He is nattily dressed in a brown suit, because Clarke Cooke House, judged by Food & Wine Magazine as “by far the most sophisticated restaurant in Newport,” has a dress code: “Gentlemen, please, jackets required.”
Rule-breakers
But despite his sartorial compliance, the women are in no mood to comply with any rules.
The cop approaches an outdoor host table, where three worried-looking restaurant staffers are watching.
“Do you guys just want them out?” he asks. “Do you want them trespassed?”
“Anything we can do,” says a staffer, placing his hands together in a prayerful gesture. “I just need them out. Cuff them. Please. It’s the only way.”
The cop returns to the two women and Flanagan keeps barking at him about “protocol.”
“OK, so you’re trespassing so we gotta leave now, unless you want to be in handcuffs,” the cop says.
“We’re not trespassing,” Flanagan responds sternly, as if she is lecturing a witness in court. “You haven’t notified us that we’re trespassing, number one.”
“What did I just tell you,” says the cop. “You’re trespassing. Let’s go. I don’t want to arrest you guys.”
At this stage, they could just turn around and go home.
But no, Flanagan was going to teach this cop some respect.
“You’re not going to arrest us. Number two, the protocol is …”
She keeps lecturing him. Veronica wags her finger in his face. Poor Dan is squirming in the background.
“Your protocol is if I ask you to turn off the bodycam, you have to turn it off and that’s your protocol,” Flanagan insists, infuriated that this cop isn’t obeying her instruction
“She’s a f–king lawyer so she knows,” says Veronica.
The cop’s patience is wearing thin. “Well, that’s bulls–t lawyer stuff so that’s not true. We gotta go.”
Flanagan lets fly with her trump card: “I’m an AG. I’m an AG.”
“Good for you,” says the cop. “I don’t give a s–t.”
And here is the moment in the video where all rational Americans let out a loud cheer.
Amen, bravo, attaboy!
The bodycam ends minutes later after unseemly scenes of both women screaming as they are handcuffed and thrown in the back of cruisers.
Full meltdown
Veronica then has a full meltdown, kicking and running away and refusing to get into the car while screaming, “No! No! Babe! Babe,” at poor Dan. But he is sensible enough to obey the cop’s direction to stand back. All you hear from him is a calm voice: “I’m right here. I’m right here,” as his wife thrashes around like a madwoman.
A little earlier, poor Dan had tried to defend the honor of the ladies, when the cop turned to him and said in exasperation: “Can you get your children out of here? What are you doing?”
“Excuse me,” snapped a very offended Veronica, while Dan stammered: “They’re two full-grown women and mothers.”
But honestly, they were behaving like children having a tantrum, only with an extra dose of narcissism, condescension, arrogance and a grandiose sense of privilege.
The last we see of Flanagan is in the back of the cruiser shrieking: “Buddy, you’re going to regret this. You’re going to regret it. I’m an A …”
The door slamming in her face before she gets out the 12th “I’m an AG” is one of the most satisfying moments in bodycam history.
That cop is all of us, fed up with Democrats pulling rank, acting superior while behaving irrationally.
We don’t want to live in their world anymore. But unlike the rest of us, the cop could do something about it. All we can do is vote, or move out of the blue cities they’ve trashed.
Flanagan and Hannan were charged with willful trespass, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, according to Newport police.
First thing the next morning, Flanagan’s boss, Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha, made her come into his office and watch the bodycam footage of her arrest. Oh, to have been a fly on the wall.
“Look, she’s put me in a bad position,” he said in an interview with WPRO radio Tuesday. “She’s embarrassed herself, humiliated herself, treated the Newport Police Department horribly.”
He wouldn’t be drawn on whether she would be fired, saying only: “There will be a suspension without pay, if I retain her, for sure. So she’s not going to continue as if nothing happened …
“I think it’s alcohol-related,” he added.
No kidding.
But alcohol is not an excuse. It simply acts as a truth serum, amplifying character traits like the pervasive sense of entitlement that seems to afflict Democrats like Flanagan, or the pink-shirted DOJ official, Sean Charles Dunn, who threw a Subway sandwich at an ICE agent in DC in a fit of foul-mouthed rage.
All they’re doing is losing hearts and minds, as shown by the fact that, for the first time since 2018, more new voters nationwide chose to be Republicans than Democrats last year, according to a mournful story in the New York Times.
These people need to grow up and stop thinking the world revolves around them. America is tired of their tantrums.
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