The decision to send Officer Delke’s homicide case to a grand jury has inflamed the relationship between the police union defending him and the district attorney prosecuting him.

The Fraternal Order of Police maintains that Delke followed his police training, and should not be prosecuted for the death of Daniel Hambrick.

D.A. Glenn Funk doesn’t buy that defense and compared it to Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg and a U.S. soldier convicted of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, who claimed they were following orders.

“His defense is that Andrew Delke was following his training. The same defense that Himmler used at Nuremberg, that Lt. Calley used in Vietnam. And now Andrew Delke is propounding to this court.,” said Funk.

FOP attorney David Raybin called it a declaration of war.

In his closing arguments General Funk described Officer Delke’s adherence to his training as tantamount to the defense asserted by Nazi war criminals at Nurenberg. Such inflammatory comments have no place in this city or in a courtroom. By making that statement, District Attorney Glenn Funk has functionally declared war on our police. Because all of our officers are trained in an identical fashion. Let me be clear, Nashville police officers are not Nazis.

D.A. Funk responded with this statement: