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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Abe Asher

Video shows state lawmaker being arrested after telling police they didn’t have authority

Oklahoma City Police Department/Twitter/@Imposter_Edits

When Oklahoma representative Dean Davis was confronted by police officers outside of an Oklahoma City bar in the early hours of Thursday morning, he thought he had the perfect response – a section of the state constitution that says lawmakers shall be “privileged from arrest during the session of the Legislature.”

“You can’t detain me,” Mr Davis, a Republican, told a police sergeant in an argument captured by police body camera footage and obtained by The Washington Post.

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