Karen Learn fired again Thursday in opposition to two cops who labored her homicide case — claiming in a brand new lawsuit they’re “virulent bigots” pushed by their hatred of ladies to “body” her for her Boston cop boyfriend’s demise.
The go well with, filed Thursday in opposition to the City of Canton and Massachusetts State Police, reveals a whole bunch of vile, misogynistic and racist texts despatched by her case’s lead investigator, ex-Trooper Michael Proctor, and former Canton Police Sgt. Sean Goode.
Over the course of a decade, the officers repeatedly used the phrases “fats c–t[s],” “sluts,” “soiled n—-ers,” “n-glets”, “silly ugly g–ok[s],””c—ok tard[s],” “s–c[s],” and “jew chick[s]” and extra, based on the lawsuit.
At one level, Goode even bizarrely went after tragic teenage Holocaust sufferer Anne Frank, based on the go well with.
“Anne Franks a mendacity c-nt,” he texted — whereas Proctor allegedly raged about his feminine boss.
“My new VP is a big malignant c-nt. I pray to the heavens that some f-cked up insect from the amazon crawls up her vagina, hatches eggs and the litter kills her by consuming her from the within out,” he wrote, based on the lawsuit.
Learn, 45 — who was acquitted final yr of killing her police officer boyfriend John O’Keefe — alleges that the state and the city ought to have recognized the officers had been “unfit to carry positions of authority.”
“They aren’t officers who sometimes voiced an offensive comment. They’re males whose written and recorded communications — despatched to at least one one other and to a circle of like-minded associates over the course of a decade — set up entrenched and unrepentant hatred for girls, Black Individuals, Asian Individuals, Jews, Hispanics, Arabs, and homosexual folks,” the lawsuit claims. “Their unfitness for any place of public belief was not delicate.”
The cops launched a homicide investigation in January 2022 wherein the “purpose was to pin it on the lady,” the go well with states, referencing Learn.
The police division and the city “unleashed these two misogynist bigots on Ms. Learn to work on the conflicted and corrupt ‘investigation’ into the demise of Mr. O’Keefe. It didn’t take lengthy to set off their hatred and goal Ms. Learn,” the lawsuit states.
Learn was acquitted in June 2025 in a case accusing her of mowing O’Keefe down along with her SUV after an evening of boozing and leaving him to die in a snow financial institution the night time of a snowstorm.
She has maintained she was the patsy in an elaborate police cover-up.
Her case has “shone an unflinching highlight on one thing” state and native police “have spent years attempting to hide: an embedded tradition of bigotry, misogyny, systemic failures, and institutional rot on the very core of each organizations,” the lawsuit alleges.
A whole lot extra sexist, antisemitic, and racist texts from the cops had been revealed within the lawsuit.
Whereas texting about Sandra Birchmore — a 23-year-old Canton girl allegedly groomed, impregnated, and killed by a Stoughton police detective in 2021 — Goode allegedly advised his associates, “[t]hat chick was borderline retarded.”
“[S]he’s a jew…so def places out,” Goode allegedly wrote about one other girl.
In different texts, Goode allegedly known as Boston Mayor Michelle Wu a “little c-nt” and New England Patriots proprietor Robert Kraft a “horrible c-nty Jew.”
Proctor messaged again at one level, “America sucks …. Hitler was actually on to one thing then the f—king US needed to step in and smash it.”
In one other disturbing textual content, Goode wrote about attempting to have anal intercourse along with his then-girlfriend whereas she sleeps, based on the lawsuit, filed in Bristol Superior Court docket.
“I can’t even get f–king close to that [anus]. … I make each effort attainable. I wait until she’s asleep and I attempt to get at it, I attempt each effort attainable, I attempt to get her hammered, I can’t get wherever close to it. Um, it’s beginning to piss me off… it’s not cool,” he wrote, based on the lawsuit.
The city of Canton responded to the lawsuit Thursday by stressing that it has since modified its management, based on Boston.com
“The City of Canton has the utmost religion and confidence within the new management of Canton Police Division below Chief Michael Daniels, and we’d refute any broad stroke characterizations in regards to the courageous and devoted women and men who serve within the Division,” the city stated in an announcement.
State Police Col. Geoffrey Noble, in the meantime, condemned the “disturbing” texts in Learn’s lawsuit as “completely inconsistent with any fundamental commonplace of decency and definitely with the expectations of a Massachusetts State Trooper.”
“These racist, sexist and abhorrent feedback completely don’t replicate the values of the Massachusetts State Police and usually are not tolerated inside our ranks. They underscore and absolutely assist my choice to terminate Michael Proctor,” stated Noble, who took over three years after O’Keefe’s demise.
Having made “important strides ahead” over the previous two years, “the Division is poised to maneuver additional forward as a contemporary public security company, which the residents of Canton rightfully count on and deserve,” the city stated.
