Joplin, Missouri Police Woman Shoots Herself In Hand - Male Cop Shoots Suspect - Earning The Hate

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INCIDENT INFORMATION: Joplin, Missouri - August 13, 2019 at approximately 2120 hours Joplin Police Officers were dispatched to 901 W. Kensington Rd in reference to a suspicious person. The subject David Ingle, 31, Joplin Police officer Christopher Grant Meador and officer Laken Rawlins encountered was not combative at first with officers. Taser’s were deployed and were ineffective. As he was lay down on the ground the suspect suddenly stand up and charged at the officer Meador that is when the officer involved shooting occurred, officer Meador fired his duty weapon striking the suspect.

Fire and EMS were immediately dispatched to the scene. The suspect was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced deceased.
OFFICERS CLEARED THEY DID A GREAT JOB ACCORDING TO INVESTIGATION:
UPDATED: Joplin officers involved in August shooting cleared by internal, Missouri Highway Patrol investigations
Kevin McClintock Dec 26, 2019 Updated 23 hrs ago

Two Joplin police officers — Christopher Grant Meador and Laken Rawlins — have been exonerated of any wrongdoing stemming from the Aug. 13 shooting death of Joplin resident David Ingle, Joplin Police Chief Matt Stewart said Thursday.

The shooting was investigated by the Joplin Police Department as well as the Missouri State Highway Patrol.

During a 45-minute press conference, video from the dashboard camera on Rawlins' patrol car as well as from the two officers' body cameras was shown to the media.

Combined, they showed events leading up to the moment when Meador fired shots from his service weapon at Ingle, who was unarmed but charging at Meador. Audio from two separate 911 calls prior to the incident, as well as the dispatch call to Rawlins — the first officer to arrive on the scene — also were played.

“The Missouri State Highway Patrol completed their investigation and determined no criminal wrongdoing (had been committed) by either of the officers,” Stewart said. “We also completed our own internal affairs investigation and ... determined there were no policy violations that occurred.”

Following the playing of the audio and video recordings on a screen inside the Joplin Public Safety Training Center, Stewart said: “It’s easy for someone who is not involved in law enforcement encounters to question events because they don’t know the reality of trying to subdue someone that is aggressively trying to attack them."

Meador and Rawlins have a combined 1,051 hours of police training, including 599 hours of "use of force" and "deescalation" training and 79 hours of mental health training, Stewart said. Meador joined the Joplin Police Department in July 2014; Rawlins joined in May 2017.

“Missouri requires every individual police officer to receive a minimum of 24 hours of training each year,” Stewart said. “As you can see, both of these officers have far exceeded the minimum required training — Meador, six times the required amount, and Rawlins, seven-and-a-half times the amount."

At 9:20 p.m. on Aug. 13, the Joplin Dispatch Center received a 911 call from a man warning them of a “suspicious male” outside his home, “screaming and hollering and cussing” and “really acting up.”

“I think he has drug problems,” the caller told the dispatcher.

When asked if the man had a weapon, the caller said he didn’t know.

Officer Rawlins received the dispatch minutes later to investigate a “suspicious male, screaming and swearing and stomping around” and that the man was “probably on drugs.”

Video images taken from Rawlins’ dashboard camera showed Ingle jogging down the road. Moments later, Ingle threw up his arms in a surrendering gesture, arms over his head, when Rawlins switched on her vehicle’s emergency lights. Ingle then dropped face first onto the pavement, his head near the curb. He lay spread out on his belly as Rawlins exited her vehicle at 9:27 p.m., a stun gun in her right hand.

“You will see (that) Officer Rawlins spent nearly three minutes trying to talk to Mr. Ingle, to deescalate the situation," Stewart said during the news conference, prior to showing footage of the shooting from Rawlins’ body camera.

After instructing Ingle to “stay on the ground" or risk Rawlins using her stun gun, she told the 31-year-old that he was “doing fine” and "help was on the way."

While yelling mostly unintelligible words and grunts, there were moments where Ingle answered Rawlins' questions and instructions with an “OK” or an “all right.”

Early on, however, when Rawlins asked Ingle to place his arms behind his back, he answered an affirmative but didn't do so.