Jadarrius Rose, 23, is seen on video during the July 4 traffic stop with his hands up surrendering to police before an officer deployed his canine.
A police dog mauled a Black man in Ohio during a July 4th traffic stop after he surrendered to authorities with his hands raised in the air following a “lengthy pursuit,” according to officials.
A Motor Carrier Enforcement inspector with the Ohio State Highway Patrol (OSHP) attempted to stop 23-year-old Jadarrius Rose who was driving a semi-tractor trailer because it “was missing a left rear mud flap,” according to an incident report. Rose was traveling westbound on U.S. Route 35 and failed to stop for the inspector and troopers who were called in for help.
Stop sticks were deployed twice on the vehicle before it came to a stop on U.S. Route 23.
“After several times of being ordered to exit the vehicle, the suspect exited the vehicle from the driver’s side door,” the incident report stated. “The driver was given orders to get down on the ground and the suspect would not comply.”
Rose can be seen on video released by the OSHP standing in front of troopers with his hands in the air.
An officer with the Circleville Police Department who has a K9 with him can be heard telling Rose to “go on the ground or you’re gonna get bit.” Meanwhile, a trooper with the OSHP is telling Rose to “come to me.”
It was then that the Circleville Police Department officer, identified as “R. Speakman,” deployed his K9.
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Not only did the police target this black man for essentially no reason (really? You chase a driver, which is dangerous to the entire community, because he’s missing a mud flap?), the responding officers gave mixed commands at the same time, and then assaulted him with a dog while he had already surrendered.
Anyone want to bet that the culprit here gets a paid vacation while his department investigates and finds no wrongdoing?
We need to redo the police system in the US from the ground up.
stories like these are too common. seems like the standard is for them to get a vacation when caught being cruel.
It’s not clear if the officer responsible for directing the dog to attack Rose is facing any disciplinary action.
Of course not, any disciplinary action will wait until the department’s PR department has established whether or not there is a significant media backlash. Bad publicity (potentially spurring ethical reform) is the only reason a cop ever gets disciplined, after all.
k9 units are medieval levels of behind the times. but toxic masculinity thinks they’re cool.
They are also worse than random chance at actually doing the one thing police claim technology can’t match: drug and bomb sniffing. Dogs just want to go take a nap or get a treat, and their handlers are cops who just think everything is suspicious so of course they get lots of “hits”.
It’s essentially the same bullshit that hoodwinked the world with Coco the “signing” guerilla for a couple of decades.
The fact that handlers can fake a “hit” wherever and whenever they want is the entire point, and also the reason they resist moving over to technical solutions. Those technologies also come with logging, which is another point against them as far as cops are concerned.
It’s always been about control and cruelty.
They’re still around to use as bullshit “probable cause” to hassle and search people’s cars for drugs. Because the war on drugs was a good idea, and dogs have not repeatedly been shown to be complete bullshit. They indicate when their handler wants them to. It’s been proven so many times. Yet, it’s probable cause.
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“Do not release the dog with his hands up!” a trooper can be heard yelling multiple times ahead of Speakman releasing the dog.
The video shows the dog running towards Rose, who came to his knees as Speakman released the K9.
Video appears to show the dog biting and pulling Rose by his arm as he screams loudly.
“Get it off!” Rose screams repeatedly.
“Get the dog off of him!” a trooper is heard yelling.
Other officers on the scene can be heard calling for a first aid kit.