More incidents in the Chesterfield County Police

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• Police Narrative: Police Investigate Officer-Involved Shooting
  "[O]fficers... use[d] a TASER..." - Chesterfield County Police, July 8, 2023
• Police Narrative: Police Continue to Investigate Officer-Involved Shooting
  "Chesterfield County Police continue to investigate an officer-involved shooting that occurred in the 1200 block of Wycliff Court at about 12:49 p.m. on Saturday, July 8. The... [man] who was shot by police has been identified as Charles M. Byers, 34, of the 900 block of Marblethorpe Road. ...[A] relative took Byers to an area hospital for mental health treatment on July 5. On July 6, a temporary detention order was issued for Byers... [police came to the facility], and Byers was admitted to the facility on July 6." - Chesterfield County Police, July 10, 2023
• Police: Man killed in officer-involved shooting had been recently released from hospital
  "Officers fired shots and... Byers was pronounced dead on the scene." - NBC 12 Newsroom, July 8, 2023
• Man killed by Chesterfield Police needed mental health treatment days before shooting. What happened
  "Chesterfield Police identified the man they shot and killed over the weekend as 34-year-old Charles Byers. Police said they continue to investigate his interactions with the local mental health system just days before he died..." - Tyler Layne/WTVR, Jul. 10, 2023
• Police shooting timeline: Alleged assault by suspect at Richmond hospital involved no injuries, no w
  "Byers' TDO showed Richmond Behavioral Health Authority evaluated Byers and found that he... Had a mental illness that could result in harm to himself or others or suffer harm due to lack of capacity to protect himself... [,] was in need of hospitalization or treatment... [and] was unwilling or incapable of volunteering for hospitalization or treatment." - Tyler Layne/WTVR, July 19, 2023
• Chesterfield Police hired company accused of 'pseudoscience'
  CBS 6 confirmed through a public records request that Chesterfield Police paid Force Science at least $12,500, and Force Science provided an 82-page analysis and report on the Byers shooting. One federal judge in California wrote in 2023 that Force Science "is widely regarded as a purveyor of unreliable pseudoscientific analysis engineered to justify officers’ use of force, and its studies… enjoy little or no acceptance within the relevant scientific community." - Tyler Layne, WTVR