After Karen Read was found not guilty of killing her boyfriend John O’Keefe in 2022, she filed a sweeping lawsuit against the Massachusetts State Police and Canton Police Department — and the court filing puts two former officers at the center of the story: Michael Proctor and Sean Goode.
Read filed the suit in Bristol Superior Court on June 4, 2026, alleging that her trials exposed “an [embedded] culture of bigotry, misogyny, systemic failures, and institutional rot at the very core of both organizations.” While neither Proctor nor Goode is named as a defendant, dozens of their text messages...
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