Karen Read sues police for dead ex-cop boyfriend she was accused of murdering: We are the voice for John

Karen Read hit the airwaves Friday morning on the heels of her blistering lawsuit alleging police corruption, saying “the wrongs have not been completely righted” and that she thinks of her dead cop ex every day.Read, 46, — who was acquitted last year of killing her beau John O’Keefe in 2022 — filed suit Thursday against the investigators in her criminal case, exposing a slew of their alleged racist, sexist and curse-laden text messages.After living through two criminal trials — the first of which ended with a hung jury and the second with an acquittal — Read said in a TV interview on the “TODAY” show that she brought the suit because “the wrongs have not been completely righted.”“I want this to be over.But it’s not done yet,” she said.She said O’Keefe is “the victim of institutional corruption.

And we are the voice for John.”Read has maintained from the outset that she was framed for O’Keefe’s murder, suggesting that he was actually killed by a group of his cop friends who were all at the Canton home where Read dropped him off on Jan.29, 2022.As she works to expose the rampant corruption she claimed plagued her criminal case, she said she has “lived nearly daily, John’s final moments.”She thinks about “what happened to him; what was on his phone; what was the temperature of his phone; and what were his interactions that he experienced prior to his death with members of the family that lived in that house,” Read said.Read was accused of fatally mowing O’Keefe down with her SUV after dropping him off at his cop buddy’s house following a heavy night of drinking.

Prosecutors claimed Read then drove off, leaving O’Keefe to die in a snow bank as a winter storm was coming in overnight.The first trial ended with a deadlocked jury in July 2024 and the second trial resulted in her being acquitted of causing O’Keefe’s death but convicted of drunk driving.Read said in the interview that she hasn’t gotten a job sinc...