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Karen Read fired back Thursday against two cops who worked her murder case — claiming in a new lawsuit they’re “virulent bigots” driven by their hatred of women to “frame” her for her Boston cop boyfriend’s death.
The suit, filed Thursday against the Town of Canton and Massachusetts State Police, reveals hundreds of vile, misogynistic and racist texts sent by her case’s lead investigator, ex-Trooper Michael Proctor, and former Canton Police Sgt. Sean Goode.
Over the course of a decade, the officers repeatedly used the terms “fat c–t[s],” “sluts,” “dirty n—-ers,” “n-glets”, “stupid ugly g–k[s],””c—k tard[s],” “s–c[s],” and “jew chick[s]” and more, according to the lawsuit.
At one point, Goode even bizarrely went after tragic teenage Holocaust victim Anne Frank, according to the suit.
“Anne Franks a lying c-nt,” he texted — while Proctor allegedly raged about his female boss.
“My new VP is a giant malignant c-nt. I pray to the heavens that some f-cked up insect from the amazon crawls up her vagina, hatches eggs and the litter kills her by eating her from the inside out,” he wrote, according to the lawsuit.
Read, 45 — who was acquitted last year of killing her police officer boyfriend John O’Keefe — alleges that the state and the town should have known the officers were “unfit to hold positions of authority.”
“They are not officers who occasionally voiced an offensive remark. They are men whose written and recorded communications — sent to one another and to a circle of like-minded friends over the course of a decade — establish entrenched and unrepentant hatred for women, Black Americans, Asian Americans, Jews, Hispanics, Arabs, and gay people,” the lawsuit claims. “Their unfitness for any position of public trust was not subtle.”
The cops launched a murder investigation in January 2022 in which the “goal was to pin it on the girl,” the suit states, referencing Read.
The police department and the town “unleashed these two misogynist bigots on Ms. Read to work on the conflicted and corrupt ‘investigation’ into the death of Mr. O’Keefe. It did not take long to trigger their hatred and target Ms. Read,” the lawsuit states.
Read was acquitted in June 2025 in a case accusing her of mowing O’Keefe down with her SUV after a night of boozing and leaving him to die in a snow bank the night of a snowstorm.
She has maintained she was the patsy in an elaborate police cover-up.
Her case has “shone an unflinching spotlight on something” state and local police “have spent years trying to conceal: an embedded culture of bigotry, misogyny, systemic failures, and institutional rot at the very core of both organizations,” the lawsuit alleges.
Hundreds more sexist, antisemitic, and racist texts from the cops were revealed in the lawsuit.
While texting about Sandra Birchmore — a 23-year-old Canton woman allegedly groomed, impregnated, and killed by a Stoughton police detective in 2021 — Goode allegedly told his friends, “[t]hat chick was borderline retarded.”
“[S]he’s a jew…so def puts out,” Goode allegedly wrote about another woman.
In other texts, Goode allegedly called Boston Mayor Michelle Wu a “little c-nt” and New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft a “terrible c-nty Jew.”
Proctor messaged back at one point, “America sucks …. Hitler was really on to something then the f—king US had to step in and ruin it.”
In another disturbing text, Goode wrote about trying to have anal sex with his then-girlfriend while she sleeps, according to the lawsuit, filed in Bristol Superior Court.
“I can’t even get f–king near that [anus]. … I make every effort possible. I wait till she’s asleep and I try to get at it, I try every effort possible, I try to get her hammered, I can’t get anywhere near it. Um, it’s starting to piss me off… it’s not cool,” he wrote, according to the lawsuit.
The town of Canton responded to the lawsuit Thursday by stressing that it has since changed its leadership, according to Boston.com
“The Town of Canton has the utmost faith and confidence in the new leadership of Canton Police Department under Chief Michael Daniels, and we would refute any broad stroke characterizations about the brave and dedicated men and women who serve in the Department,” the town said in a statement.
State Police Col. Geoffrey Noble, meanwhile, condemned the “disturbing” texts in Read’s lawsuit as “entirely inconsistent with any basic standard of decency and certainly with the expectations of a Massachusetts State Trooper.”
“These racist, sexist and abhorrent comments absolutely do not reflect the values of the Massachusetts State Police and are not tolerated within our ranks. They underscore and fully support my decision to terminate Michael Proctor,” said Noble, who took over three years after O’Keefe’s death.
Having made “significant strides forward” over the past two years, “the Department is poised to move further ahead as a modern public safety agency, which the citizens of Canton rightfully expect and deserve,” the town said.
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