“Do you know who I am???”
That bullying, boastful phrase made famous by Moe Greene and sometimes uttered by politicians and the famous when they get in a jam.
After hearing a full accounting of the arrest of Senate Majority Leader Dominick Ruggerio (D) for allegedly DUI, some of us were left slightly wanting (and slightly impressed) by the absence of that phrase or the attendant attitude on the part of the arrestee.
Now, thanks to some excellent FOIA work by the Providence Journal, it turns out that the substance of the phrase was very much employed at the scene. But it emanated from a third party.

A North Providence state senator threatened police officers with legislative retribution Wednesday and tried to pull strings to get Senate Majority Leader Dominick J. Ruggerio off the hook after Ruggerio was pulled over and later charged with drunken driving, according to a Barrington police report released Friday after The Providence Journal filed an Open Records Request.
In a roadside confrontation, Frank A. Ciccone III told Patrolmen Michael J. Gregorzek and Walter C. Larson, “You think you got pension problems now, wait ’til this [expletive] is all done. This guy voted against you the last time, it ain’t gonna get any better now,” according to Gregorzek’s report.
Gregorzek also declared that Ciccone “was calling numbers from his cell phone trying to contact the major of the state police and every other person he could think of to deal with ‘the problem.'”
The officer also said that Ciccone urged him to call “John,” whom he identified as Police Chief John M. LaCross of Barrington.

The ProJo link above has links to both police reports: the “supplemental” report issued Friday by the Barrington police which contains this new information and the original report about the arrest of Senate Majority Leader Ruggerio.
I would be remiss if I failed to say:
Major kudos to the Barrington police for not being dissuaded from doing their job by such antics on the part of an unwelcome bystander.
Asked for his reaction to this new revelation, Senator Ciccone weakly tries to distance himself from it but ultimately does not deny its substance.

In a statement, Ciccone declined to address the details of the report. “While the Barrington Police were at all times courteous and professional, I do not agree with the accuracy of some of the details in the report,” he said. “However, I certainly regret anything I may have said Tuesday evening that was inappropriate.”

Two small questions arise from these new details about the incident: where did Senator Ciccone pop from to do this bullying and blustering? The “supplemental” police report says that he walked up to the scene where Officer Larson was questioning and administering a field sobriety test to Senate Majority Leader Ruggerio. Presumably, Senator Ciccone was not jogging beside the Senate Majority Leader as he drove down Wampanoag Trail but had been leading or following Senate Majority Leader Ruggerio in his own vehicle. If so, was the smell of alcohol also detected on Senator Ciccone?