Karen Read's Lawsuit Has Dug Up Texts From the Cops Who Charged Her With Murder, and They Are Insanely Racist and Offensive

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It's funny how the universe works some times. Here it is, June of 2026. Making it almost exactly a year since she was acquitted by a jury of her peers her second trial in the death of Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe. While there's been a made-for-TV movie that was apparently awful and some talk of of lawsuits by both Read against the Commonwealth for falsely charging her, and by some of the prosecution witnesses against her for implying they're responsible for O'Keefe's death and covering it up, the whole matter has sort of faded into the oblivion of Old News. For the most part, reduced to being argued about by people on social media, and I defy anyone to understand what, exactly they're still arguing about. 

It felt like the world had moved on. I certainly have. Then yesterday after golfing with my Weymouth buddies, I bumped into a guy who's friends with a courthouse friend of mine. A lawyer, who was a big believer in Read's guilt. So I immediately told this guy to remind our mutual friend that I was right all along about her innocence. Otherwise, it had been weeks since the Masshole Trial of the Century had been at the frontal lobe of my feeble brain. 

And now, less than 24 hours later, the case has been reopened in about the most explosive way imaginable at this point. Read and her legal team strapped 50 pounds of C4 onto the case. And the fallout from the mushroom cloud is going to ruin everyone in the blast zone. Which includes the very LEOs who led the investigation. 

They got hold of even more of the text messages from MA State Police lead investigator Michael Proctor and some of his colleagues. And as much as they were disgraced in the original trial, they're going to be nostalgic for those days now that these have been made public.

Ordinarily, when I'm quoting someone, I like to use the actual words they did, and not clean up their language with bleeps or punctuation marks. But in this case, I'm going to use the sanitized version. One, because this kind of language has no business being on Dave Portnoy's nice blog. But also because I don't have all day to insert the missing actual letters. There are just that many:

Source - The lawsuit filed Thursday by Karen Read against Massachusetts State Police and Canton Police revealed a long history of disturbing text messages between former police officers Michael Proctor and Sean Goode that allegedly included racial slurs, sexist comments and other offensive material. 

Proctor was the lead investigator in Read's case. …

Goode, a former Canton police sergeant, resigned Tuesday in the middle of an internal investigation related to the dozens of messages between him and Proctor that date back as far as 2013.

The text messages were obtained as a part of the prosecution of Myles King in Dedham [in which Proctor was the lead investigator]. … 

According to Read's lawsuit, in one message, Proctor told Goode about a crash in Canton. 

"Actually, take your time, I saw a [n----r] was involved, so I wouldn't rush if you're working. Let them die," Proctor allegedly wrote, the complaint stated.

"That lady was an absolute [c—t] rag [n---a] who had it in for [me] for some reason," Proctor allegedly wrote in another message, referring to a Boston Police Department employee who performed a background check on him earlier in his career and eventually did not hire him for a position.

In one message, Read's attorneys said that Proctor wrote, "It should be 'punch a [n----r] day' in canton today out of retribution. Any shine u see blast it in the face."

Proctor allegedly wrote in another message, "America sucks …. Hitler was really on to something then the [f-----g] US has to step in and ruin it."

Goode allegedly referred to Boston Mayor Michelle Wu as a "little [c—t]," and said Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey can "suck my [d--k]." He also made a derogatory statement about Patriots owner Robert Kraft, who is Jewish.

The former Canton police officer also used racial slurs against Black and Asian people, according to the complaint.

According to text messages in the lawsuit, Proctor and Goode allegedly repeatedly discussed performing sexual acts on women, sometimes while they are asleep. They also allegedly referred to women in various vulgar terms and as "pigs."

The complaint alleges that Proctor wrote in one message that he needed "a roofie or something" to find a sexual partner.

Goode allegedly wrote about the high-profile case of Sandra Birchmore, who was found dead inside her Canton apartment. Birchmore's death was initially ruled a suicide. Later, former Stoughton police officer Matthew Farwell was charged with killing her and is now awaiting federal trial.

The lawsuit alleges that Goode wrote "[t]hat chick was borderline [r------d]."

Just on the odd chance the slurs, racism, antisemitism, sexism, and jokes about drugging and raping women weren't offensive enough, consider that Birchmore was underage when Farwell began (allegedly) grooming her. She was pregnant. Told him it the baby was his. And by all accounts was excited about becoming a mother when he (is alleged to) have staged her suicide. 

And the same state's forensics search (led in part by Karen Read investigator Trooper Nicholas Guarino) failed to turn up some of the texts between Birchmore and Farwell. And by "some," I mean 32,709. That is not a typo. 

But to Goode, the problem wasn't the murder made to look like a suicide, the victim, the victim's unborn son, or the coverup. It's the fact this expectant mother was "borderline [r-----d]." Got it. Thanks for your service, Sarge. 

Say what you will about private texts messages between friends, and I'll agree with you. Most of us, most guys anyway, say shit in private to guys we trust we'd never say to anyone else or want to get out to the public. It's just how most men communicate from the time they're about 12. But "most men" aren't investigating homicide cases, car crashes, or given the power and authority to arrest people, detain them, take their freedom away, charge them with felonies, and sometimes legally shoot and kill them. With great power comes great responsibility. And these jagoffs deserved neither. 

And to think, this is just the first day. My guess is the deeper Read's team digs into Proctor's phone, the richer the deposit of this kind of vile crap they're going to find.

So stay tuned. The Commonwealth v. Karen Read continues to be the gift that keeps on giving. Who's the [r----d] now?