Accused Massachusetts cop killer Karen Read compares her supporters to Vietnam War protesters after mistrial

Massachusetts murder suspect Karen Read compared her supporters to Vietnam War protesters, telling the group Monday: “Thank you. I hope to meet you all one day, I don’t know you, but I love you.”

Read, 44, is accused of killing her boyfriend, 46-year-old Boston police officer John O’Keefe, in January 2022, by hitting him with her SUV and leaving him to freeze to death in the snow outside their Canton home.

Read maintained her innocence and went to trial, which ended in a mistrial in July. Prosecutors plan to retry her in January.

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Stopping with a group protesting on the side of the highway in Dedham on Labor Day, Read expressed her gratitude for their support.

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“You are brave,” Read told the crowd, then compared their actions to protests against the Vietnam War, which killed nearly 60,000 Americans and millions of Vietnamese.

“You would have protested the Vietnam War and ended it. And this is the modern equivalent of that, so thank you all,” she said in footage obtained by WCVB.

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Read’s trial that year sparked violent demonstrations outside the Dedham courthouse, with many people supporting Read and defending her innocence, while others expressed confidence in her guilt.

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Following the mistrial, Read’s defense attorneys asked to dismiss the charges, arguing that the jury voted to acquit her but misunderstood the deliberation procedure.

A judge denied her motion, and since then many people in Massachusetts have continued to protest in support of her.

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Read has pleaded not guilty to a charge of second-degree murder.

Prosecutors said Read dropped O’Keefe off at a house party thrown by a friend after a night of drinking, then hit him while executing a three-point turn and drove away.

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Read’s defense team argued that she was framed by someone who beat O’Keefe to death in the home.

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