Special prosecutor warns Karen Read supporters' behavior is 'antithesis of justice'

Special authoritative Hank Brennan broke his soundlessness connected the Karen Read case Monday, informing that the behaviour of her astir vocal supporters threatens the American ineligible strategy arsenic it is known.

"The run of intimidation and maltreatment that has been waged, funded, and promoted successful nationalist and connected societal media is the antithesis of justice. If this benignant of behaviour becomes commonplace, it volition endanger the integrity of our judicial system, affecting some victims and criminally accused," helium said successful a statement. 

"We cannot condone witnesser maltreatment causing participants to interest for their ain information oregon that of their families."

One of Read's main cheerleaders, Aidan Kearney, a Canton blogger known arsenic Turtleboy, is facing charges of witnesser intimidation successful transportation with the case.

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Karen Read speaks to a protagonist arsenic she and her ineligible squad permission the Dedham, Massachusetts, courthouse connected Friday, June 13, 2025. (Josh Reynolds/AP Photo)

"It is my anticipation that with the verdict, the witnesses and their families volition beryllium near alone," Brennan said. "The harassment of these guiltless victims and household members is deplorable and should ne'er hap again in a lawsuit successful this commonwealth."

Jurors recovered Read not guilty of each homicide-related charges past week successful her 2nd proceedings implicit the decease of John O'Keefe, a Boston constabulary serviceman and her erstwhile fellow whom prosecutors alleged she fatally struck with her 2021 Lexus LX 570 SUV earlier fleeing the scene.

Despite the outcome, determination are signs that her supporters inactive person their absorption connected witnesses successful the lawsuit – 1 of whom is slated to get joined implicit the weekend.

After a "Free Karen Read" X relationship posted accusation astir the wedding, her registry tract went offline.

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Officer John O’Keefe successful his authoritative portrait. (Boston Police Department)

Prosecutors had accused Read of backing into O'Keefe with her Lexus SUV and leaving him to dice with a fractured skull during a blizzard connected Jan. 29, 2022. Her defence denied a collision ever happened. Jurors agreed and recovered her blameworthy lone of drunken driving.

"I americium disappointed successful the verdict and the information that we could not execute justness for John O'Keefe and his family," Brennan said.

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He joined the lawsuit past twelvemonth to assistance the Norfolk District Attorney's Office aft Read's archetypal proceedings ended with a deadlocked jury. He said District Attorney Michael Morrissey gave him afloat discretion to reinterpret the evidence, and Brennan sought the aforesaid charges, including second-degree murder.

William and Janet Read, parents of suspect Karen Read, perceive arsenic defence lawyer Alan Jackson gives closing arguments successful her execution proceedings successful Norfolk Superior Court connected Friday, June 13, 2025 successful Dedham, Massachusetts. (Mark Stockwell/The Sun Chronicle via AP, Pool)

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"After an autarkic and thorough reappraisal of each the evidence, I concluded that the grounds led to 1 person, and lone 1 person," Brennan said. "Neither the closed national probe nor my autarkic reappraisal led maine to place immoderate different imaginable fishy oregon idiosyncratic liable for the decease of John O’Keefe."

Morrissey's bureau has not responded to a petition for remark from Fox News Digital regarding the trial's outcome.

Read's parents, however, person maintained her innocence passim much than 3 years of her ineligible ordeal.

Her father, William Read, an outspoken dependable connected the courthouse steps during and aft her 2nd trial, has thanked supporters who lined the streets extracurricular her proceedings arsenic good arsenic net "content providers" who took her broadside online.

Prosecutor Hank Brennan during the Karen Read retrial connected June 10, 2025 successful Dedham, Massachusetts. (Matt Stone/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool)

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"I privation to admit the top squad of attorneys," helium told a assemblage aft her acquittal connected the astir superior charges. "Our archetypal 1 that we recovered was David Yannetti. We added Alan Jackson and Liza Little. Bob Alessi you cognize about, each right. It was a fantastic team, but we needed them each to decision this."

In a caller interrogation with NBC's Boston affiliate, helium enactment connected a Lexus play garment and said his girl would person told him if she had killed O'Keefe.

"We cognize Karen arsenic our daughter. Had she done thing and struck John O'Keefe, we would person been the archetypal to beryllium notified," helium told the station. "She would person said, 'Mom and dad, I volition instrumentality my medicine,' and it was rather the opposite."

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As for her mother, Janet Read, she thanked her daughter's supporters and said she intended to wage it forward.

William Read, similar his daughter's defence attorneys, is urging her supporters to spell retired and vote.

O'Keefe's household has not responded to requests for comment.