An Ohio K-9 officer was fired for allegedly lying about discussing a dog attack on an unarmed Black truck driver, not the attack itself, records show.
Jadarrius Rose and his mother, Carla Jones, speak on July 27, 2023, of Rose being attacked by an Ohio K-9 dog on July 4, 2023, after attempting to surrender to police with his hands up following a highway chase.unarmed Black truck driver
Circleville Police Chief Shawn Baer disclosed in a July 25 written report that at one point Speakman came to him "crying and very upset," concerned that he was going to take away his K-9 partner, Serge -- a 4-year-old Belgian Malinois Shepherd mix. Baer said he received a report from the chairman for this use-of-force review board, acting Capt. Kenny Fisher of the Circleville Police Department, who wrote, “The board concluded that all personnel involved acted within departmental policy regarding the use of force and canine operations policy.
In the document, Baer said he met with Speakman on July 19 -- 15 days after the dog attack -- and spoke to him "about reports I received that he was crying and talking to other employees about being stressed over the July 4, 2023, K-9 deployment.” “Ryan Speakman discussed so much information with so many people it had immense potential to impact the board’s ability to provide an accurate review," Baer wrote.
Speakman's body camera footage shows the officer arriving at the scene and yelling at Rose from a distance, saying, "Get on the f------ ground or I’m going to send the dog.” As Rose, with his hands up, continued to walk in the direction of the trooper instructing him to move forward, Speakman warned Rose a second time, "Police K-9. You're going to get bit."
Rose said that even after the police dog latched onto his arm, it did not appear that Speakman or other police officers were in a rush to get the animal off of him. He said he directly pleaded with the dog to let him go. Police bodycam screengrab shows a few moments before Jadarrius Rose was attacked by an Ohio K-9 dog on July 4, 2023, after attempting to surrender to police with his hands up following a highway chase.In his written narrative of the incident, contained in the records released to ABC News, Speakman repeated that he gave Rose three warnings and then “made the decision to deploy K-9 Serge off lead in the suspect's direction.
"I wanted to get out. I hadn’t committed a crime. It’s not like I murdered somebody, and they got their guns ready to shoot me," Rose said. “I just didn’t want to die. That’s what was going through my mind. I just didn’t want to die. That’s why I called them for help."
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