""I'm not going to speak on this again," an adamant Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox said Monday. Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox is firing back after Karen Read's defense attorney accused him of telling "a bald-faced lie" about his knowledge of the infamous case. In a scathing letter to Mayor Michelle Wu last week, Alan Jackson called for a disciplinary review over Cox's remarks about Kelly Dever, a former Boston police officer who testified during Read's second trial."
"He also demanded Cox be referred for immediate inclusion on Suffolk County prosecutors' Brady list, which is used to track law enforcement officials whose credibility has been called into question. Jackson's demands centered on comments Cox made to reporters in July, when he denied pressuring Dever into changing her testimony and claimed he didn't even know she was associated with the case."
"Dever, who was working as a patrol officer in Canton the morning O'Keefe died, offered some of the most explosive testimony of Read's second trial. During a testy exchange with Jackson, she walked back statements she'd made to federal officials about seeing witness Brian Higgins and then-Canton Chief Kenneth Berkowitz enter the police station garage where Read's SUV was stored."
Michael Cox denied pressuring Kelly Dever to change testimony and said he did not know she was associated with the case. Alan Jackson, defense attorney for Karen Read, accused Cox of lying and urged Mayor Michelle Wu to pursue disciplinary review and add Cox to Suffolk County prosecutors' Brady list. Prosecutors alleged Read backed her SUV into Officer John O'Keefe in January 2022; jurors acquitted Read of major charges in June, convicting her only of a drunk driving misdemeanor. Dever's testimony included walking back statements about seeing witnesses and officials near the stored SUV. Cox previously served as Ann Arbor police chief when O'Keefe died.
Read at Boston.com
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