Andrea Mixon was a police officer for the East Canton Police Department. On Monday, August 19, Mixon walked into an East Canton City Council Meeting where she handed in her resignation.
She started working at the department briefly in 2022 and then rejoined the department back in April of 2023. In June, she was involved in a traffic stop that led to a chase, where the suspect shot at her multiple times, WOIO reports.
Mixon, in uniform, walked up to the front of the room and said, “I am formally resigning right now.”
She said one of the key things that played a major factor in her decision to resign is how she was treated after she was shot at during a police chase back in June.
According to Mixon, she continued to work her shift minutes after being shot at. She worked until 12 p.m. the next day and said the department never offered her time off to recover from the terrifying incident.
“I was not offered any sort of mental health resources, when you particularly think about critical incidents of those natures the majority of departments have a process after the fact. If it is an officer involved shooting you have a debriefing, you meeting with higher-ups, sometimes they send a Chaplin in. I was not offered any of that,” said Mixon.
