Video footage shows Rose exiting the truck as officers urge him to approach them with his hands raised or to get on the ground. According to a recording of a call that Rose placed to 911, he told the dispatcher, “They’re trying to kill me,” News 5 Cleveland reports.įollowing a chase through three counties, troopers eventually used spike strips to destroy the truck’s tires, which then forced Rose to come to a stop. Video footage appears to show Rose pulling over at one point before continuing to drive again. The incident unfolded on 4 July, when dashcam video captured by the Ohio state highway patrol shows a trooper trying to stop a semi-truck driven by 23-year-old Jadarrius Rose for allegedly missing a mudflap. It also reported at least 13 incidents during which the dogs went rogue and attacked correction officers or other prison staff.īut the Ohio case is seen as especially shocking, not least because the incident was caught on film and showed that other police officers ordered the canine officer not to release the dog on Rose. Similarly, a recent Insider report found that from 2017 to 2022, patrol dogs used by state prisons were ordered to attack incarcerated people at least 295 times. In 2016, the family of an unarmed Black man in Mississippi who was severely attacked by a police dog and then fatally shot by a white police officer filed a wrongful death lawsuit.Ī study released by the Marshall Project in 2020 found that many people attacked by police dogs did not have a weapon, were not accused of violent crimes or were not suspects at all.Ī separate 2021 report by the organization found that between 20, Baton Rouge police dogs in Louisiana bit at least 146 people, with the majority of them being Black.Įarlier this year, a report published by the US justice department after the botched police raid that killed Breonna Taylor in Kentucky found that police dogs used by Louisville’s metro police department were found to sometimes not release a person even after being ordered by their handlers to do so. Last year, video footage appeared to show California police officers using a police dog to severely maul an Uber driver who missed his car payments.
Numerous reports in recent years have pointed to the ways in which police dogs have been used as weapons across the US by police and prison staff, often involving victims who were people of color.
“Circleville police officer Ryan Speakman’s actions during the review of his canine apprehension of suspect Jadarrius Rose on July 4 show that Officer Speakman did not meet the standards and expectations we hold for our police officers,” the police department said.
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