I followed the trial kind of, and I know she was found not guilty and is suing the police department. Anything else? I first heard about it on one of my true crime podcasts and then followed the trial on another one. It sounded like a setup to me, but I'm not there.

more and more information is coming out that it really was a set up.

The lead investigator, Michael Proctor, is in essence a white supremist and incredibly misogynistic. There are a multitude of texts between him and some of the other investigators.

The texts are out and they are HORRIFIC!

Can you tell it in a nutshell?

"Who Is Michael Proctor? Former Officer Named in Karen Read’s Lawsuit Against Police Departments", (Yahoo News. Katherine Schaffstall. Mon, June 8, 2026 at 1:19 PM PDT)

In one message cited in the filing, Read's attorneys say Proctor wrote, "It should be 'punch a [n*****] day' in canton today out of retribution. Any shine u see blast it in the face." A subsequent message allegedly read, "America sucks …. Hitler was really on to something then the [f***] US has to step in and ruin it."

Read's lawsuit further alleges that Proctor and Goode held "long-standing and deeply held biases against women." Several text exchanges cited in the filing show the two former officers allegedly discussing sexual acts performed on women — at times while the women were asleep — and referring to women as "pigs" and other vulgar terms. In one alleged message, Proctor wrote that he needed "a roofie or something" to find someone to have sex with."

There are many, many more texts.