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While no contenders have stepped forward, activists are calling for change

Protest held pushing for criminal justice reform in downtown Nashville WTVF and last updated 2021-07-11 20:18:53-04 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — On Sunday afternoon, a group of people gathered outside the Justice A.A. Birch Building demanding criminal justice reform. "The Together Movement" and "Pounding 4 Change" hosted this rally. It started at 2:33 p.m. They tell us they chose this start time because those numbers add up to 8 and in the Bible, that represents a new beginning. Its what they...

Anger from Hambricks family continues as former MNPD officer gets three-year sentence Protesters gather outside the home of DA Glenn Funk WTVF and last updated 2021-07-10 22:13:30-04 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — The family of a man shot and killed by a Metro Police officer continue their calls for justice. Saturday evening, the family joined a few protesters outside of the home of District Attorney Glenn Funk, expressing their anger against him through a bullhorn. Protesters are calling for F...

A week ago, as former Metro police Officer Andrew Delke was about to go to trial for the fatal 2018 shooting of Daniel Hambrick, Delkes attorney David Raybin and Davidson County District Attorney Glenn Funk appeared in court to announce that they’d reached a plea agreement. The deal — which saw Delke plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter and accept a three-year sentence of which hes likely to serve about half — outraged Hambrick’s family and many in the community who saw it...

Andrew Delke plea deal stark reminder of unjust treatment of Black people LeBron Hill, Nashville Tennessean © Josie Norris / The Tennessean Sam Hambrick, III, speaks during a press conference held by the family of Daniel Hambrick outside the NAACP offices in Nashville, Tenn, on Friday, July 2, 2021. Greetings, readers: Delke, the first Nashville police officer to be charged with murder for an on-duty shooting, will serve three years in prison as part of his plea deal. Rashe...

Former Metro Nashville Police Officer Andrew Delke was sentenced to three years in the death of Daniel Hambrick.  At Delkes plea hearing on Friday, Hambricks mother cried out and criticized the court for accepting the plea.  Delke was initially facing trial on a first-degree murder charge but pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter. The mother of a Black man who was killed by a Metro Nashville Police officer in 2018 cried out in court as the former cop was sentenced to thr...

Vickie Hambrick enters the courtroom on July 2, 2021 Pool photo by Josie Norris, The Tennessean Three years of a mother’s anguish and grief erupted in a Nashville courtroom Friday morning as Vickie Hambrick, her voice streaking out pained and furious, screamed at the former Metro police officer who killed her son Daniel on July 26, 2018, shooting him in the back as he ran away.  “I hate you!” she yelled before turning her attention to the ju...

By ZACH GILCHRIEST     NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — Daniel Hambrick’s mother Vicki Hambrick told reporters Friday she would “get [Andrew] Delke,” after the former MNPD officer pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in her son’s shooting death on Friday. “I don’t care if I have to go to jail, I’m gonna get him,” Hambrick said. “His family is going get it. Tonight. They better run, they better run town. But they can’t hide for long.” Vicki Hambrick’s words follow...

The former officer has pleaded guilty to the charge because the family exploded in the Black Lives Matter News The mother of a black man who killed a former white Nashville officer in the United States sobbed as she asked a judge on Friday who threw a court lectern, unknowingly, to deny the plea claim that he had secretly hit her. the chaotic scene briefly delayed hearing. Former officer Andrew Delke has pleaded guilty to murder and will serve a three-year prison sentence in 2018 over the death...

Her anger and frustration were felt by others Friday, too. Many community activists wanted Delke to go to trial and face a far stiffer penalty for killing Hambrick. They want changes to the Nashville police department and the citys criminal justice system, which theyve been repeatedly calling for since the shooting.  “A three-year sentence is unheard of," Sam Hambrick III, Daniel Hambrick’s cousin, said at a news conference later in the morning Friday. "This is insane. We did not get jus...