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Resident alleges police mishandling and raises concerns about mutual aid costs during council public comments
Summary
During public comments, a Chesapeake resident described a personal incident involving a shooting victim and alleged police mishandling and ambulance cancellation; others raised questions about mutual-aid reimbursements and delays in disabled-veteran property-tax exemption processing.
At the council meeting's public comment period several residents raised concerns about public safety and city processes.
Tommy Hart, a resident who identified his address, addressed the council with a multi-minute account of an incident in which he said he found a man who had been shot, called for emergency services, and later criticized how Chesapeake Police and other city responders handled the event. Hart said an officer told him no ambulance would be dispatched and that, in his view, command personnel (he named Lieutenant Pappas) and responding officers 'canceled the ambulance,' leaving the injured man without…
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