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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm new to the discourse about Karen Read after hearing she was acquitted, and just watched the HBO documentary.

With the way people online were talking about it, it sounded like Karen obviously didn't do it, and the people in that house were obviously responsible for it. But after watching that documentary, I actually find it very ambiguous? I don't quite buy the framing theory, something about it just seemed like a big reach. I get that cops in general can be corrupt and they deserve the reputation they've built for themselves, but I don't see enough to think there was a massive-cover up (although I guess therein lies the issue: they were never investigated thoroughly).

At the same time, I don't think Karen was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, and if she did it, it was an accident, so I agree with the verdict. People also say that if there were that many people involved in a cover-up, one of them would have slipped by now, but didn't her legal team say they got an anonymous tip to check out the house? Could've been one of them. [/quote]
Just watched the HBO doc and this was my take too. I don’t think there was framing or a cover-up. I think he was drunk, it was slippery and he fell and hit the back of his head. If she hit him, it was an accident. She was drunk driving and guilty of it. The cops' collective behavior was strange (selling the house, rehoming the dog, nasty text messages, "butt dialing") so it was a good move to bring it all up. At the very least it took away the assumption that cops are demi-gods and therefore they are all and always heroes. They seemed as fallible and unlikeable as Karen herself. No one had a clear picture of what happened and the defense made it impossible to convict her based on the cops good/accusers bad narrative. [/quote]

PP Yeah, while I don't buy the cover-up theory, the collective behavior was strange. How do you think that could be explained? I understand why the cops destroyed their cell phones, because even if they weren't guilty, they probably texted a lot of terrible things, but I'm curious about the house selling and dog rehoming. [/quote]

Not sure it is that weird to sell a house after that sort of traumatic incident in the yard, especially if I was already thinking of selling. Also covering up a murder in the house would probably compel people to keep the house, not let others in to see it and inspect it and live there. They rehomed the dog after she got in a fight with another dog a few months later.[/quote]

Didn’t Chloe also bite a woman who was trying to intervene between Chloe and the dog being attacked? Is there a “one bite” law in Massachusetts?
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