Former Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman, 72, who was convicted of lying on the witness stand in the O.J. Simpson trial three decades ago, is now barred from law enforcement under a California police reform law meant to strip the badges of police officers who act criminally or with bias. Fuhrman, who is white, was one of the first two police detectives sent to investigate the 1994 killings of Simpson's ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman in Los Angeles.
Fuhrman declined to comment Friday when reached by phone. “That was 30 years ago. You guys are really up to speed,” he told an Associated Press reporter. When told that The San Francisco Chronicle had reported that his decertification became formal in May, he replied 'good for them, have a nice day,” before hanging up. The California decertification law was passed in 2021 in the wake of the 2020 police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and took effect in 2023.