Karen Read says she gets free meals and discounts everywhere after not guilty verdict

Acquitted of execution and different charges successful the decease of her erstwhile boyfriend, Boston constabulary serviceman John O'Keefe, Karen Read says she nary longer has to wage for meals erstwhile retired connected the town.

Responding to a question from co-host Craig Melvin connected the "Today" amusement Friday, Read said the effect to the jury's verdict has been overwhelmingly positive.

"You person to cognize that erstwhile you locomotion down the street, determination are tons of radical who look astatine Karen Read and think, 'Oh, there's that pistillate who got distant with sidesplitting her ex-boyfriend who's a cop,'" Melvin said. "How bash you spell done beingness knowing that determination are tons of radical who, contempt what the assemblage said, inactive deliberation you got distant with it?"

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Karen Read exits Norfolk County Superior Court successful Dedham, Mass., connected June 18, 2025, aft being recovered not blameworthy of the execution of her boyfriend, John O'Keefe. (Richard Beetham for Fox News Digital)

Read said she hasn't met galore radical who consciousness that way.

"I person nary interactions [like that] nary substance wherever I spell — the market store, a restaurant, Newbury Street successful Boston, immoderate edifice oregon edifice I devour at, I don't wage for meals," she said. "I get discounts everywhere. My parents get assistance taking groceries to go."

In fact, she said the ample turnout of supporters extracurricular the Dedham courthouse during her proceedings is conscionable a sampling.

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Karen Read arrives astatine Norfolk County Superior Court with her lawyer Alan Jackson successful Dedham, Mass., connected May 20, 2025. She is charged with sidesplitting her Boston constabulary serviceman fellow by intentionally driving her SUV into him. (Hans Pennink for Fox News Digital)

"It's passim Massachusetts," she told Melvin. "And it happens erstwhile I travel."

Still, she admitted that her nonrecreational licence has not been restored — and she's inactive retired of work.

"I'm backmost moving connected the case," she said. "And, you know, we've brought successful civilian lawyers but this lawsuit is truthful broad that we request each hands connected deck."

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Massachusetts prosecutors took Read to proceedings doubly successful transportation with O'Keefe's January 2022 decease extracurricular a colleague's location during a blizzard.

They accused her of hitting him with her Lexus SUV and fleeing the scene, wherever helium was recovered dormant the pursuing greeting nether a expanse of snow.

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John O'Keefe is shown wearing his Boston constabulary azygous successful an undated photograph. (Brendan Kane)

Her defence pointed to a flawed investigation, which progressive a pb detective who mislaid his job, Michael Proctor, implicit rude and lewd substance messages helium sent astir Read to radical who should not person received confidential accusation connected an progressive case.

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The archetypal clip around, jurors deadlocked.

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The 2nd time, they recovered her not blameworthy of each homicide-related charges related charges and convicted her lone of drunken driving.

Then-Massachusetts State Police Trooper Michael Proctor testifies during Karen Read's archetypal execution proceedings astatine Norfolk Superior Court successful Dedham, Mass., connected June 10, 2024. (Kayla Bartkowski/The Boston Globe)

Read's inactive not done successful court, however. She's suing the Massachusetts State Police and the Canton Police Department implicit their handling of the O'Keefe probe arsenic good arsenic what her attorneys person called a civilization of "bias and corruption" involving not lone allegations of misogyny, racism and antisemitism, but besides that investigators tried to framework her for O'Keefe's death.

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"This was ever our plan," she said of the lawsuit. "I had to prevention my ain beingness first. I can't bash thing if I'm not free."

Her Los Angeles-based lawyer Alan Jackson added that the extremity of the suit is to bring to airy "institutional corruption that permeates the Massachusetts instrumentality enforcement system."

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"That's what this lawsuit's gonna do, ultimately," helium said. "What Karen wants, you cannot constitute connected a check."

Read is besides facing a wrongful decease suit from O'Keefe's family.

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When asked by co-host Laura Jarrett if she had thing to accidental to the family, she said no.

"I don't person thing to accidental to his family," she said. "I interacted with them for respective years. John and I had really dated a agelong clip ago, erstwhile we were successful our aboriginal 20s, and I was caring and I judge generous with them, with my time. And we did walk a batch of clip together. And they experienced who I am."