"Karen Read attorney Alan Jackson is back on the warpath in his quest to "pull back the curtain" on policing in Massachusetts, and this time Boston's top cop is in the hot seat. "Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox has been caught in a lie - and not a small one," Jackson wrote in a blistering letter to Mayor Michelle Wu Monday, calling for a disciplinary review over Cox's remarks about a former officer who testified during Read's second trial."
"Jackson's letter focuses on comments Cox made to reporters on July 10, when he denied pressuring then-Boston Police Officer Kelly Dever into changing her testimony and claimed he didn't even know Dever was associated with Read's case. "I have nothing to do with Karen Read," Cox said at the time. Read, 45, was accused of backing her SUV into her boyfriend, John O'Keefe, on a snowy night in Canton in January 2022."
"Calling Cox's statements 'patently false' and 'a bald-faced lie,' Jackson pointed out O'Keefe not only worked as a Boston police officer but was found unresponsive on another Boston officer's lawn. 'For the Commissioner to suggest that he had 'nothing to do with that case' defies both logic and leadership,' Jackson charged. 'Common sense tells us he had everything to do with it.'"
Alan Jackson demanded a disciplinary review of Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox, accusing him of lying about a former officer's connection to the Karen Read case. Cox told reporters on July 10 that he denied pressuring Officer Kelly Dever and said, "I have nothing to do with Karen Read." Jackson called those statements "patently false" and "a bald-faced lie," noting that John O'Keefe worked as a Boston police officer and was found unresponsive on another officer's lawn. Cox was chief of the Ann Arbor Police Department when O'Keefe died. Read faced two murder trials, including a 2024 mistrial and a retrial.
Read at Boston.com
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