Karen Read unleashes explosive lawsuit against state police, Canton police: court docs

Karen Read, the Boston pistillate acquitted of execution stemming from the decease of her constabulary serviceman boyfriend, is headed backmost to tribunal aft she filed a caller suit suing the Town of Canton and the Massachusetts State Police implicit their alleged mishandling of the investigation. 

The 87-page suit obtained by Fox News Digital was filed successful Bristol Superior Court Thursday greeting and alleges "an imbedded civilization of bigotry, misogyny, systemic failures, and organization rot astatine the precise halfway of some organizations."

Court documents see a bid of expletive-laced messages exchanged betwixt the case’s erstwhile pb investigator, ex-Trooper Michael Proctor, and erstwhile Canton Police Sgt. Sean Goode, and alleges wide misconduct and negligence surrounding the probe into John O’Keefe’s 2022 death. 

"[S]he’s a jew…so def puts out," Goode wrote successful 1 text, according to tribunal documents.

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Karen Read exits Norfolk County Superior Court successful Dedham, Mass., connected June 18, 2025, aft being recovered not blameworthy of the execution of her boyfriend, John O'Keefe. (Richard Beetham for Fox News Digital)

The filing besides points to messages allegedly sent by Proctor, successful which helium referred to Read arsenic a "retarded," "whack occupation c---," with "no a--." 

In a connection released to the media, attorneys Alan Jackson, Damon Seligson, and Aaron Rosenberg alleged the 2 instrumentality enforcement agencies fostered "a civilization of bias and corruption that they built, tolerated, and hid from the nationalist for years."

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Karen Read gives John O'Keefe a buss connected the broadside of his caput successful an undated photograph. (Karen Read for Fox News Digital)

"Michael Proctor and Sean Goode did not gaffe done the cracks; they are emblematic of the nonaccomplishment to responsibly workout the spot and religion the nationalist puts successful these institutions," the attorneys added.

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Read was acquitted of execution and manslaughter charges past twelvemonth pursuing a mistrial successful the decease of O’Keefe.

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Karen Read and her ineligible squad code the media extracurricular Norfolk Superior Court successful Dedham, Mass., connected June 18, 2025. Read was recovered not blameworthy of the execution of her fellow John O'Keefe. (Richard Beetham/Fox News Digital)

At the time, prosecutors alleged Read drunkenly struck O’Keefe with her SUV and near him to frost to decease successful the snowy beforehand gait of a friend’s location successful adjacent Canton. However, her defence squad successfully argued that Read was not liable for O’Keefe’s death. 

The improvement comes conscionable days aft Goode, who responded to the country of O’Keefe’s decease and testified successful Read’s archetypal trial, resigned from the Canton Police Department pursuing an probe into alleged misconduct, according to Boston 25. Authorities person not revealed if the probe is connected to Read’s case.

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In 2025, Proctor was fired from his presumption wrong the authorities constabulary aft his substance messages sent astir Read were work successful her archetypal trial. 

Read is besides facing a wrongful decease suit filed by O’Keefe’s family, and has filed a national civilian rights suit against aggregate witnesses who testified against her successful some execution trials.

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"Karen Read was acquitted of each complaint related to John O'Keefe’s decease — and present the agencies that negligently permitted virulent misogynists and bigots to people her volition reply for what they built, what they concealed, and what they did to her," Read's attorneys wrote. "The days of hiding down badges and promotions portion peddling vile bigotry are over. The information is coming, and with it an unflinching reckoning." 

Fox News Digital reached retired to the Town of Canton, Massachusetts State Police and Read’s attorneys for comment.