Karen Reed slammed by slain boyfriends pal for claiming she fought for justice after being cleared of his murder
A close friend of slain Boston cop John O’Keefe slammed Karen Read for proclaiming she’s fought for justice in her beau’s case harder than anyone else — just after she was acquitted of his murder.The officer’s pal, John Jackson, told The Post that Read, who was accused of hitting O’Keefe with her car and leaving him to die in the snow, wasn’t there for him when he desperately needed her.“The irony of that, right? How hard was she fighting between 12:30 and 6 in the morning on Jan.29, 2022?” Jackson said Thursday.“You want to fight for justice now, fine.
But in the moment when he needed you, you weren’t there.You caused it and you weren’t there.”O’Keefe was left to die in a snowbank for hours overnight and his frozen body was discovered the following morning after Read dropped him off at a house party in Canton in January 2022 — setting off the explosive legal spectacle.The longtime pal of O’Keefe ripped into the financial analyst, claiming “there is more evidence that points to her than anybody else” and eviscerated her obsessive legion of fans that went wild after she was acquitted of murder and manslaughter charges.Read, 45, was accused of striking O’Keefe, 46, with her Lexus on Jan.
29, 2022 after dropping him off at a house party in Canton more than three years ago.She was quickly charged, but her legal team claimed the investigation was shoddy and argued she was being scapegoated by law enforcement.She took a victory lap after the acquittal on murder and manslaughter charges, boldly claiming to her crowd of supporters, “No one has fought harder for justice for John O’Keefe than I have.”She was only convicted of drunk driving and given a year of probation.Her first trial ended in a hung jury.About 12 hours after the verdict was revealed, Jackson was still downtrodden while noting O’Keefe’s family was “surprised” and “heartbroken” by the jury’s decision to only convict on the drunk driving charge.“The...