Shortly after the arrest, Jackson issued a statement saying the claims were "predicated on a big lie". In an interview with the news program "60 Minutes," Jackson also claimed that the police had mistreated him and complained of a dislocated shoulder. He reaffirmed his innocence and said that he was determined not to settle out of court as he had done in 1993. In August 2004, the California attorney general's office concluded, after an independent investigation, that Jackson was neither "manhandled" nor mistreated when he was taken into custody.