It's clear some people don't care about the police lying in order to get a conviction by ANY means or facts that show a conspiracy or shady dealings. Their hatred for Karen trumps everything. I'm convinced there could be video evidence of police planting evidence and they'd still make excuses for them and say Karen is guilty anyway. What we've just seen here in these last minutes are direct video evidence that Brian Higgins lied under oath in a court of law about his activities on the night and day after JOK was murdered. Nothing will be done about it. cannone will do nothing about. Some don't care. I'm completely perplexed by this attitude and trying to understand how we've come to this in the country.
It's also clear that these people have no intention of having any type of reasonable discussion about these massive issues in the case IMO.
Well, How about this timeline of STATE POLICE corruption in Massachusetts: It is UGGGGGLY! Oh and the last victim was a police recruit and died in a boxing/self defense training. How about that?
April 1998 - Pregnant troopers sue for discrimination
Female troopers file a lawsuit, stemming from a directive which prohibited pregnant women from “wearing uniforms, interacting with the public, working overtime, and driving police cruisers.”
Sep. 2005 - Hazing allegations lead to shakeup at Mass. State Police Academy
A lieutenant is transferred out of the Academy in the wake of allegations that an instructor shoved recruits' heads down a dirty toilet bowl at the New Braintree facility.
Feb. 2006 - State Police sergeant arrested in sting operation
Brian O'Hare, a State Police sergeant, is arrested in a sting operation by the FBI. O'Hare believed he was meeting a boy aged 14, who he intended to have sex with.
Aug. 2012 - Drug lab scandal
MSP shut down Jamaica Plain drug lab. Years later, prosecutors in seven Massachusetts counties
dropped more than 21,000 low-level drug cases tainted by the work of a rogue lab chemist who worked there, Annie Dookhan, who, over the course of several years, ingested many of the drugs she was tasked with analyzing.
June 2015 - Mass. State Police labeled as 'most secretive' government agency in America
The Investigate Reporters and Editors (IRE) organization
award the MSP with the Golden Padlock, reflecting the agency’s lack of transparency with the public.
Oct. 2017 - Troopergate scandal
Trooper Ryan Sceviour files a lawsuit against top brass at headquarters,
claiming he was forced to delete embarassing details in an arrest report involving a Worcester County judge's daughter. In the wake of the controversy, high-ranking MSP officials resigned and a lenghty ethics investigation ensued.
May 2018 - Mass. State Police overtime scandal
Nearly 50 troopers were
implicated in a scandal that centered around them claiming overtime hours they did not work. The controversy lead to the elimination of Troop E, which patrolled the Massachusetts Turnpike, and ultimately resulted in 10 criminal convictions and restitution to taxpayers.
Aug. 2018 - Trooper dishonorably discharged for drug-dealing past
A Massachusetts State Police trooper is dishonorably discharged after the department said she
did not disclose her past involvement in a drug-dealing operation before joining the force.
March 2021 - Mass. State Police colonel accused of helping allies on promotional exam
Three veteran supervisors sued Col. Christopher Mason, alleging that he distributed a predictive "study guide" to those closest to him in order to quickly promote them before a state law took effect.
Oct. 2021 - Off-duty trooper charged in fatal crash
Kristopher Carr had just graduated from the Massachusetts State Police Academy
when he was charged for his involvement in a fatal crash while off-duty. The passenger in Carr's car claimed that he had ingested "6-7 alcoholic beverages" prior to the accident.
March 2022- Troopers sue for alleged discrimination against new parents
Five members of the Massachusetts State Police
sued the agency, alleging it is illegally discriminating against troopers who take maternity or other types of leave.
July 2022 - Recruits injured after 'bear crawls' on hot pavement
The "unauthorized exercises"
uncovered by the NBC10 Investigators resulted in at least 20 trainees being treated by medical staff and led to a shakeup at the Academy in New Braintree.
May 2023 - Former Mass. State Police Union president sentenced to federal prison
Dana Pullman, who had served as the president of the Mass State Police Troopers Union from 2012 to 2018,
was convicted of accepting kickbacks from a lobbyist and also using his union debit card for personal expenses.
Aug. 2023 - Mass.S State Police troopers who refused COVID vaccine reinstated
The union representing the troopers
called the reinstatement a "victory" after filing a grievance when the officers were suspensed for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine.
Nov. 2023 - Historic dropout rate at Mass. State Police Academy
The NBC10 Investigators
report that 46% of men and women who signed up for the police academy dropped out, a historic low in the history of the agency.
Jan. 2024 - Mass. State Police troopers charged in CLD bribery scandal
Four former and current Massachusetts State Police troopers are
accused of taking bribes in exchange for giving passing scores on commercial driving tests. In the indictment, prosecutors alleged the scheme was referred to as the "golden handshake" in text messages.
June 2024 - Lead Mass. State Police investigator in Karen Read trial suspended without pay
Trooper Michael Proctor, who served as the lead investigator in the 2022 death of Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe,
is suspended without pay amid an internal affairs investigation following his testimony in the murder trial of Karen Read. During the trial, Proctor's crude and misogynistic texts about Read raised questions about his credibility and bias. Proctor's testimony has already
created fallout in other high-profile cases.
Aug. 2024 - Sandra Birchmore death investigation by feds
Matthew Farwell, a former Stoughton police detective, is
accused by federal prosecutors of strangling Sandra Birchmore in her apartment and staging her death to look like a suicide. Farwell had previously been accused of grooming Birchmore when she was part of a youth program at the police department and having sex with her when she was only 15. Massachusetts State Police
investigated Birchmore's death and did not pursue criminal charges, even though Farwell was the last person to see her alive and Birchmore had told the married police officer she was pregnant with his child.
Sept. 2024 - Recruit dies from training exercise
Recruit Enrique Delgado-Garcia dies in the hospital
after sustaining injuries from a boxing training exercise at the State Police Academy. The Worcester District Attorney recused his office from the investigation and
an independent attorney has been tapped to review the circumstances around Delgado-Garcia's death.