Karen Read says lawsuit is 'crusade' to expose police corruption, bigotry, misogyny
Summary
Karen Read, acquitted of killing her police officer boyfriend, filed a lawsuit against the Massachusetts State Police and Canton Police. She claims the police framed her and hired officers with racist and sexist views, supported by offensive text messages from two former officers involved in her case.Key Facts
- Karen Read was found not guilty of murdering her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe, in June 2025.
- She was accused of hitting O'Keefe with her car and leaving him to die in a blizzard in January 2022, but she denied the collision happened.
- Read sued the Massachusetts State Police and Canton Police for hiring officers with discriminatory attitudes.
- The lawsuit reveals text messages from former officers Michael Proctor and Sean Goode containing racist, sexist, anti-LGBTQ, and antisemitic language.
- Proctor was fired due to these vulgar text messages, which he described as "regrettable" but denied they affected his investigation.
- Proctor's lawyer stated his personal messages had no impact on the case against Read.
- The murder retrial of Karen Read is ongoing and scheduled for June 9, 2025.
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