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The Ohio cop who released his police dog on a black truck driver who was surrendering earlier this month — ignoring clear orders to restrain the animal — has been fired. The Circleville Police Department said Wednesday that Ryan Speakman “did not meet the standards and expectations we hold for our police officers” after he unleashed a German shepherd K9 that mauled Jadarrius Rose on July 4. The 23-year-old black man, who had failed to stop his semi-trailer for a Motor Carrier Enforcement inspector while driving with a missing mud flap, was on his knees and with his hands up...

“Get on the ground or you’re going to get bit!” he yells. Rose complies by getting onto his knees and raising his hands, the video shows. A state trooper whose camera was recording the incident then repeatedly shouts at the local cops: “Do not release the dog with his hands up!” But the Circleville K-9 officer — identified by WOSU as Ryan Speakman – releases the dog, which lunges toward Rose and bites him as he screams, “Get the off of me … please, please … get it off!”

A police K-9 dog died of "heat-related injuries" inside an officer's vehicle this week after the air conditioning system stopped working, authorities in Georgia said. The dog, named Chase, had been left in a patrol car belonging to one officer, who the Cobb County Police Department identified as Officer Neill in a news release. The incident happened Monday while Neill and other officers attended an active shooter training at a local high school. "Officers had been at training since 11 a.m. and had been checking on their K9 partners on the hour for 15-minute breaks between each 45-minute training session,"...

Dear Sheriff Bianco; I’ve been quite repelled by the asinine assembly bill to ban the use of police canines by California police agencies for the arrest and apprehension of criminal suspects, and for crowd control. I am certain that you find this bill quite disturbing as well. If this utterly stupid and shortsighted Assembly Bill 742 is indeed passed, then I suggest that as Sheriff you merely trump this bill and raise the political ante by reaching for a new law enforcement tool. I would hope that you would seriously consider procuring and deploying robotic dogs as possible replacements for...

A Florida man has been arrested after deputies found him driving erratically and located a box of cookies that wasn’t what it seemed. 34-year-old Steven Robert Thomas was pulled over after a member of the Highland County Sheriff’s Office Tactical Anti-Crime Team saw him driving erratically on Lakeview Drive in Sebring around 9:30 p.m. on Nov. 10. Deputies say he drifted over the center line several times, and then almost clipped another car when he made a turn. Thomas claimed the car was having “steering issues,” which may have been true, but the bigger issue was that his license was...

A Florida K-9 caught an accused car thief in its jaws of justice last month during a foot chase that ended with the suspect begging deputies for help, according to bodycam video released Friday.

A hiker is uninjured after reportedly straying from a central Vermont trail and requesting police assistance. Police said a 56-year-old woman from Berlin apparently walked off of the marked trail of Irish Hill, listed as a 3.7-mile hike near the town, just before 3 p.m. Saturday. After calling local authorities, the hiker's phone died and left them unable to communicate with officers. Barre Town Officer Leo de Prato and his K-9, Lakota, set off for the area along with troopers from Vermont State Police in an effort to find the hiker. The hiker was found uninjured and guided back to...

SHEPHERDSVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Shepherdsville police and people of Shepherdsville mourned the loss of K-9, Dash, who was shot and killed while chasing a robbery suspect Wednesday night. The Shepherdsville Police Department K-9 was received by a full police escort early Thursday morning as his body was brought to a Jefferson Animal Hospital in Louisville for a necropsy. Shepherdsville PD Chief Rick McCubbin revealed more about the K-9, whose name is Dash, and the dog’s handler, Officer Jeff Schank. He said they responded to the robbery call at a Dollar General in Lebanon Junction when Dash was shot by the...

Duane "Dog the Bounty Hunter" Chapman on Wednesday contracted a private search and rescue K-9 team to search an island called Egmont Key off the coast of St. Petersburg, Florida, in his search for Brian Laundrie. A crew of four people carrying backpacks and other supplies left on boats with three K-9s. Chapman confirmed to Fox News that he hired the team. [snip] "We're out here at the island," Chapman said in a video posted to Twitter on Wednesday. "This would be and could be a perfect spot for him to hide, not too many people out here." Egmont has...

In a video that went viral on TikTok, an ex-police K9 yields a hilarious reaction, when his owner slips the word “cocaine” into an ordinary sentence to see if the highly trained sniffer dog will notice. In the clip, German shepherd Dante starts off panting away blissfully, chilling with his owner Davey Rutherford—who adopted Dante after he was retired from the force. Without a worry in the world, Dante looks as happy as a clam. But the former K9 officer’s placid contentment is soon shattered when Rutherford reels off a few words, his grocery shopping list—but with a twist.

Naked suspect sues police after K-9 rips through his leg with its teeth by: Lori Jane Gliha Updated: Apr 20, 2021 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KDVR) — A man who required “multiple emergency surgeries” after a police canine bit through his leg, while he was naked in his bathroom in 2019, is suing the Colorado Springs Police Department in federal court, accusing officers of violating his Fourth Amendment rights. “The law is that you have to use a reasonable amount of force for the situation that you’re encountering,” said David Lane, the civil rights attorney who represents John W. Mullins, the...

K-9 officer Schawn Barger was wrestling with a drug suspect Friday when a quick-release button on his belt was activated. That opened a door to his K-9 wagon, which allowed Dolpho, a 5-year-old German shepherd, to get free and run onto Margaret Street. The dog bit 9-year-old Brandon Livingston on the right leg and dragged him for about 20 feet, according to his mother Lorraine. Witnesses said Barger commanded Dolpho to stop at least four times, but the dog kept going after the boy, who is black. "We saw the policeman, then the dog, and we all started running...

New York police K9 was filmed taking down a suspect after the man punched a police officer in the face on Friday. Randy Martinez, a 23-year-old man who lives in Newburgh, said he was leaving his house with a friend when a man, identified as Tony Mann, 31, wandered onto his driveway and threatened him with a knife. “I rolled down the window and was going to tell him he can’t be on my property, and then he takes out his knife, and I’m just like, ‘Oh, God, no. What’s going to happen?’” Martinez said he called police because he...

Fresh snow had just melted and the scent trail was more than a day old when a yellow Labrador Retriever named Buck went in search of evidence linked to an elk that had been poached on March 19, near Cottage Grove. Time- and snow- work against tracking dogs. Still, Buck was hot on the scent of gunpowder and shell casings. He found casings, also known as brass, among grass and twigs, invisible to the human eye. Three times Buck signaled his handler, Oregon State Police Fish and Wildlife Senior Trooper Josh Wolcott. Finding three casings confirmed the story OSP...

Looks can be profoundly deceiving. At first glance, Tracy "Trace" Sargent could easily be a high-powered corporate CEO or lead a marketing firm. This petite Georgia blond with a commanding presence and the charisma and intellect to match, looks like she would fit elegantly at the head of a boardroom. You certainly don't envision this refined, vibrant woman with a sweet Southern drawl to be out enthusiastically hunting lost persons, getting dirty, crawling through rubble, or chasing down fugitives by moonlight. Yet that is exactly what she has been doing with her K9 partners for over 20 years, gracefully shattering...

“My Hero, My Friend,” a tribute to military working dogs sculptor Susan Norris. (Photo by Susan Norris) Sculptor Susan Norris has a long history of touching the hearts of others through her art, but recently, she took on a new project — one involving man’s best friend in everyday life, but perhaps even more so on the battlefield. Titled “My Hero, My Friend,” Norris’ newest statue is a life-size bronze sculpture of a military working dog wearing a Purple Heart, mourning the loss of its two-legged companion. “I’ve always had an affection for animals, but the bond between a military...

PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, Md. (ABC7) — Stephanie Mohr’s life changed forever 25 years ago. As a young Prince George’s County Police K9 Officer, she and her partner, Valk, were asked to assist on a breaking and entering call in Takoma Park, Maryland.....Now nearly a decade after her release, she is asking for a presidential pardon

GEORGETOWN, S.C. (WCBD) – A deputy in Georgetown County was forced to use a taser on his own K-9 on Wednesday afternoon. According to the Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office, a deputy responded to the scene of a reported burglary around 4:00 p.m. A cow near the scene distracted the dog which led to the dog biting the cow. To deescalate the situation, the deputy tased the dog. The cow was spooked and “struck the deputy and the property owner,” resulting in minor injuries, according to GCSO. The sheriff’s office said that the burglary call “proved to be unfounded.”

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Every dog has his day, just not at the White House. President Donald Trump tweets that the military working dog injured in the raid last weekend that killed the Islamic State leader will leave the Middle East for the White House sometime next week. And the president appears to have declassified the dog’s name: Conan. That had remained a military secret because of the classified nature of the mission in which Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi died. **SNIP** Conan was hurt after being exposed to live electrical cables but has returned to active duty, the Pentagon said Wednesday. Gen....