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Former Metro Nashville Police Officer Andrew Delke was sentenced to three years in the death of Daniel Hambrick.  At Delke's plea hearing on Friday, Hambrick's 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 three years in jail as part of a plea deal. 'What if it was your motherf---ing child?' Vicky Hambrick...

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 judge, then the prosecutors, then back to the defendant again.  The previous day, District Attorney...

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 followed a moment of chaos during Delke’s plea hearing Friday morning, which stemmed from an emotional o...

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 of Daniel Hambrick in 2018 as part of an agreement with prosecutors. Under the agreement, Delke agr...

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 city's criminal justice system, which they've 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 justice today. It’s not fair. We didn’t get a chance. A fair chance is all we want.”