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Posted by: Barry Kolar on Jul 1, 2021

Nashville prosecutors have reached a plea deal with Andrew Delke, the white Nashville police officer charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a Black man, the Tennessean reports. Delke will plead guilty to manslaughter, according to an attorney representing the victim's family, and will serve a three-year sentence for shooting Daniel Hambrick three times in the back during a July 2018 foot chase. While the plea is historic — no other Nashville officer has ever faced charges, let alone jail time, after an on-duty shooting, some activists are concerned about such a lenient punishment for a brutal crime.