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Attorney for officer charged with homicide: DA “has functionally declared war on our police”
February 27, 2019NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — The lawyer defending a police officer charged with homicide says the district attorney has “functionally declared war on police,” due to the DA’s comments during a court hearing on Saturday. Decommissioned Metro Nashville police officer Andrew Delke faces criminal homicide charges in the shooting death of Daniel Hambrick. On Monday, General […]
read moreDelke lawyers: DA Glenn Funk ‘declared war’ on Nashville police with Nuremberg comparison
February 27, 2019Nashville police officer Andrew Delke’s defense attorneys said Monday that District Attorney Glenn Funk has “declared war on the police department.” Nothing, Funk’s office said, “could be further from the truth.” Delke, 25, who is white, fatally shot Daniel Hambrick, also 25, who was black, during a July 26 foot pursuit. Funk decided to charge […]
read moreOfficer Andrew Delke’s lawyer says DA flip-flopped in evidence fight, citing Vandy rape case
February 27, 2019Legal arguments are heating up in the murder case against a Nashville police officer, with the officer’s defense attorney accusing the city’s top prosecutor of hypocrisy in a legal filing Thursday. Officer Andrew Delke, 25, was charged with first-degree murder after he shot Daniel Hambrick during a foot chase in July. His lawyer David Raybin […]
read morePR push for white officer accused of killing armed black man
February 27, 2019By Jonathan Mattise | AP February 14 NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The attorney for a white police officer charged with fatally shooting an armed black man in Tennessee is calling for legal discovery documents to be sealed from members of the public. Meanwhile, a police union has launched a digital ad campaign seeking to defend the Nashville officer, […]
read moreDriver Rear-Ends UPS Truck in Fatal Construction Zone Crash
April 25, 2018Fatal rear-end truck accident a reminder of the need to slow down and exercise caution in construction zones. Earlier this month a 32-year-old Goodlettsville man suffered serious injuries when his car struck the back of a UPS tractor that was stopped due to construction-related traffic on I-24 West near the Bell Road exit. The man—who […]
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