ABC News, November 2024
What started with too many drinks at a bar in the small US town of Canton during a snowstorm, has ended in an intense legal battle and allegations of a sweeping conspiracy among law enforcement. On January 28, 2022, a severely wounded police officer was found close to death on the front lawn of a friend’s house in the midst of a blizzard. No-one can agree how John O’Keefe got there.
Prosecutors in the state of Massachusetts allege that the off-duty Boston police officer was run down by his girlfriend during an argument. But Karen Read insists she dropped John off at the house so he could keep drinking with his friends, and while she was angry at him, she did not mow him down with her car.