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一 | CIRCLEVILLE, Ohio -- As Jadarrius Rose drove his 18-wheeler through rural Ohio, a simple missing mudflap caught the highway patrol’s eye. The trip ended with a police dog’s powerful jaws clamping down on Rose even as he tried to surrender. As he stood with his hands up beside the highway on July 4, at least six law enforcement officers surrounded him at a distance, one calling forcefully to the K-9 handler: “Do not release the dog," highway patrol video shows.Nevertheless, a Belgian Malinois is seen on the video either breaking free or being set loose. At first, the animal seems confused, racing past Rose toward officers at the far end of the truck, then turning back and running for Rose, then 23.By then the trucker is on his knees, hands still high, as an officer shouts, “Get the dog off of him!”That day, Rose joined a long list of Black Americans attacked by police dogs, a history well documented by journalists, academics and filmmakers. Investigations into such cases have been launched regularly in recent years. For some, the scenes harken back to the Civil Rights Movement, when authorities often turned dogs and firehoses on peaceful Black protesters marching for equality. The Associated Press captured one such attack in a photograph from Birmingham, Alabama, taken in the spring of 1963. It shows two police officers setting a pair of K-9s on 15-year-old Walter Gadsden. One of the dogs lunges straight for the teenager’s belly as the other strains against his leash, panting. Over the past five years, controversial police K-9 attacks have made headlines across the U.S.Records reviewed by the AP in 2018 showed the Ohio State Highway Patrol used drug dogs in 28% of its stops involving Black motorists from 2013 through 2017, although the Black population accounts for only about 11.5% of people old enough to have a driver’s permit or license in the state. The Salt Lake City police department suspended its dog apprehension program in 2020 after a Black man was bitten and an audit found 27 dog bite cases during the previous two years.The FBI opened an investigation into the police department in Woodson Terrace, Missouri, in 2021 after cellphone video showed three officers allowing a dog to repeatedly bite a Black man. And in 2020, a Black man in Lafayette, Indiana, was placed in a medically induced coma after police dogs mauled him as he was arrested in a battery case. Circleville, located about 25 miles (40 km) south of Columbus, Ohio, resembles many rural towns across the country. The city's downtown is filled with restaurants, law offices and a bakery. Flags honoring fallen servicemen and women hang from lampposts lining Main Street. While the picture may be idyllic to some of the town’s 14,000 residents, the Rev. Derrick Holmes, longtime leader of the Second Baptist Church, said Black and white residents describe their lives very differently.“Everyone doesn’t have the same experience, even though they’re all in the same town,” Holmes said. “And I think those divisions exist around the realities of bigotry, the realities of racism.”At church services the day after the video of Rose’s arrest aired, Holmes said the congregation was appalled, but not entirely surprised.“People were horrified by it,” he said. “Angered by it. Frustrated by it. And also there was a feeling of, ‘Well, here we go again.’”This isn’t the first time Circleville police have grappled with uncomfortable questions about how they train and use police dogs. Nearly 20 years ago, a founder of the K-9 unit sued the department after he was fired for insubordination. Officer David Haynes had publicly opposed cutting training hours for dogs and their handlers to 172 hours annually from 500 hours, according to court documents. Haynes warned in a 2003 memo that “words like ‘deliberate indifference,’ ‘negligence’ and ‘failure to train’ will someday be brought up.”Today, Circleville’s K-9s train 16 hours per month, or 192 hours a year, according to the department. Police Chief Shawn Baer did not respond to numerous messages seeking comment.Employing dogs to dominate a population can be traced back at least to European settlers colonizing the Americas, when the animals were used against Indigenous people. They were introduced in Southern U.S. states to capture — and sometimes kill — enslaved Black people who escaped, said Madalyn Wasilczuk, a University of South Carolina professor and author of a law journal article titled, “ The Racialized Violence of Police Canine Force.”Wasilczuk found data on K-9 police attacks sparse, but said the animals are often used in nonviolent situations and their presence can lead to serious injury. “When you talk about an apprehension, police talk about bite and hold, and that sounds very antiseptic,” Wasilczuk said. “But when you look at a video of what happens, you see a dog doing what it does with a chew toy, which is it grabs on, it tries to hold on, its head whips back and forth and its teeth are sunk into that body part as deeply as they can.”In Rose’s case, law enforcement originally sought to pull him over because of his truck’s missing mudflap, according to a highway patrol report. Circleville Police were there to assist. What happened next can be pieced together from law enforcement video and the incident report.Rose initially didn't stop as police pursued him. When he did, he saw officers with their guns drawn and took off again. At some point, he called 911 and told a dispatcher he feared the officers were “trying to kill” him. After pulling over a second time, he delayed getting out of the truck and did not immediately get on the ground as instructed.He initially was charged with a felony for failing to comply with officers, but prosecutors dropped the case. Online court documents show Rose was charged Sept. 26 with a misdemeanor version of the offense and there is an active warrant for his arrest. Neither Rose nor his attorney responded to repeated messages seeking comment.It’s not clear why a K-9 unit was at the scene that day. Michael Gould, a former New York City police officer and founding member of the NYPD’s K-9 unit, said officers appeared to have control once they surrounded Rose with their guns drawn. And then there’s the image of Rose with his hands up.“He was compliant and not a threat to anyone,” Gould said. Rose required hospital care for the bites he suffered. Whether he sustained lasting injury is unclear. The dog’s police handler, Officer Ryan Speakman, was fired, but the Ohio Patrolman’s Benevolent Association filed a grievance on his behalf arguing the officer was fired without just cause. Circleville City Councilwoman Caryn Koch-Esterline said police have yet to account for what happened.“I’m just waiting for all the information to come out,” she said in a brief interview with the AP three months after Rose’s arrest.For those working to improve race relations in Ohio, the roadside attack was a reminder of all that is still left to do.“If it were a white man and a dog was unleashed on that individual, what would that community be saying? I bet they would be up in arms,” said Nana Jones, president of the Columbus Chapter of the NAACP.___Associated Press writers Rhonda Shafner and Aaron Morrison in New York, Mike Schneider in Orlando, Florida, and Samantha Hendrickson in Columbus, Ohio, contributed to this report.。　　今明天(8月25日至26日)，台风“紫檀”持续影响华南沿海，局地有大暴雨，“简拉维”残余云系也将给福建等地带来强降雨;北方未来三天新一轮降雨发展，多地雨势较强。气温方面，长江流域一带未来几天闷热持续，北方多地闷热将缓解，部分地区清凉上线。　　南方多地强降雨连连　　北方新一轮降雨过程发展　　昨天，受今年第19号台风“紫檀”、今年第20号台风“简拉维”和季风气流影响，我国南方沿海部分地区雨势强劲，同时北方多地也出现了强降雨。监测显示，吉林东南部、辽宁中东部、河北东北部、内蒙古西部、山东中部、湖南、江西西部和南部、浙江南部、福建东部和南部、广东、广西东部、贵州北部及台湾等地部分地区出现暴雨或大暴雨，福建泉州和厦门、台湾局地遭遇特大暴雨。　　台风“简拉维”昨天登陆福建后快速减弱，已于昨天20时停止编号，但其残余云系今天仍将给福建等地带来强降雨。而台风“紫檀”今明天还会持续影响华南沿海，局地有大暴雨。在北方，未来三天，新一轮降雨过程发展，西北地区东部、华北及东北地区自西向东先后将有中到大雨，局地有暴雨或大暴雨，并伴有强对流天气。　　具体来看，中央气象台预计，今天，福建大部、浙江东南部、江西南部和东部、湖南南部、广东中部和东部、台湾岛、海南岛西部、广西北部、云南东部以及青海东部和南部、甘肃中部、内蒙古西部、陕西北部、山西北部、河北中部、北京、天津、辽宁南部、黑龙江西北部等地部分地区有大到暴雨，其中，福建西北部和东部、江西东部、广东北部、海南岛西北部以及内蒙古河套地区、山西西北部、北京南部、天津中南部、河北中部、辽宁南部等地部分地区有大暴雨，局地有特大暴雨。台风“紫檀”持续影响华南沿海北方多地清凉上线　　明天，青海东部、山西中北部、河北中南部、天津中南部、辽宁南部、山东北部、云南南部、广西中南部、广东中西部、台湾岛西部等地部分地区有大到暴雨，其中，山东北部、广西南部、广东北部等地部分地区有大暴雨。台风“紫檀”持续影响华南沿海北方多地清凉上线　　后天，青海东部、陕西北部、山西中北部、甘肃东部、云南南部、广西东部和南部、广东西部、浙江中东部、福建北部等地部分地区有大到暴雨，其中，浙江东部的部分地区有大暴雨。台风“紫檀”持续影响华南沿海北方多地清凉上线　　气象部门提醒，近期南方沿海多地强降雨连连，需警惕降雨可能引发的山洪、滑坡、泥石流等次生灾害。北方新一轮降雨过程，局地雨势较强，并伴强对流天气，公众出行尽量避开较强降雨和强对流时段，谨慎前往山区、河谷等危险地带。　　长江流域闷热天气持续　　北方多地清凉上线　　气温方面，昨天，四川、重庆、贵州多地出现高温，而且湿度较大，渠县、邻水、彭水等地体感温度超过了40℃，十分闷热;同时华北到华南依然有不少隐性高温，北京、济南、郑州、南京、上海、南昌、广州等城市最高气温不到35℃，但体感温度超35℃。　　未来几天，长江流域一带闷热天气仍然较多，不少地方即使最高气温不到35℃高温线，但体感温度也会超过35℃。城市中，武汉、重庆高温比较频繁，南京、上海、杭州、长沙、南昌、成都等地虽然高温不多，但也是闷热不减，而且夜间最低气温也多在27℃上下，仍需注意做好防暑降温措施。　　北方多地闷热则将缓解，26日以后随着降雨铺展、加上冷空气影响，部分地区气温会较常年小幅偏低。