Year: 2017

carlballou/iStock/Thinkstock(MINNEAPOLIS) -- Speaking publicly for the first time since the deadly officer-involved shooting, Minneapolis Police Chief Janeé Harteau said Thursday the killing of Australian woman Justine Ruszczyk didn’t need to happen.The 40-year-old "didn't have to die," Harteau said of the July 15 shooting incident.The Minneapolis Police Department squad cars are adorned with the lines, "To protect with courage" and "To serve with compassion," Harteau said."This did not happen," she added […]

ABC News(CARSON CITY, Nev.) -- O.J. Simpson, who was granted parole Thursday after nearlynine years in prison for a Las Vegas robbery, will soon be a free man.The imprisoned former NFL player could be released from Lovelock Correctional Facility in Nevada as early as Oct. 1.Here's what we know about what his life may be like going forward.The rest of his time in prison should continue as usual, an official […]

Credit: Bucks County D.A.'s Office(BENSALEM, Pa.) -- One of the suspects charged in the slayings of four young men in southeastern Pennsylvania had at least 40 prior encounters with local police in recent years, officials said.Police in Bensalem Township said they have had contact with Cosmo DiNardo 40 times since 2011 when he was 14 years old. But that total includes inconsequential contacts such as when DiNardo happened to be […]

ABC News(CARSON CITY, Nev.) -- O.J. Simpson's defense attorney Malcolm LaVergne quipped with his client during Simpson's parole hearing Thursday at the start of the closing remarks.When asked by the judge to begin their last remarks, LaVergne mentioned that he had an undated letter from Simpson to Las Vegas Assemblyman Ozzie Fumo.When LaVergne couldn't find the letter, he looked at Simpson and asked in front of the commissioners, "Did you […]

Ben185/iStock/Thinkstock(BALTIMORE) -- Bodycam footage allegedly shows a Baltimore police officer tampering with evidence by planting what appears to be drugs, according to the Maryland Office of the Public Defender.The video was taken on January 24 when three police officers were searching for drugs in a yard filled with debris, Baltimore Deputy Police Commissioner Jason Johnson said in a press release Wednesday.The footage purports to show one of the officers hiding […]

ABC News(LOVELOCK, Nev.) --  O.J. Simpson has been granted parole after nine years in prison for a Las Vegas robbery, a group of Nevada commissioners decided Thursday.The imprisoned former NFL player could be released as early as Oct. 1.Simpson, 70, faced the parole board Thursday, delivering a rambling account of the case in which he maintained that he didn’t intend to steal but “wish this would have never happened.”Simpson was […]

Photo by Jason Bean-Pool/Getty Images(CARSON CITY, Nev.) -- O.J. Simpson's eldest daughter made an impassioned plea at his parole hearing in Nevada Thursday, urging the board to let her father come home."No one really knows how much we have been through, this ordeal in the last nine years," Arnelle Simpson said in a statement to the board, noting that her father "didn't make the right decision" on the day of […]

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Hours before O.J. Simpson is to go before a Nevada parole board, Fred and Kim Goldman, the father and sister of Ron Goldman, spoke out and said they may never see justice for the killing of their family member."Ron never gets to spend his life doing what he wanted to do," a tearful Fred Goldman told ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos Thursday on Good Morning […]