Karen Read bizarrely compared her supporters to Vietnam War protesters — telling a group Monday to keep up their efforts as her new Massachusetts murder trial is poised to begin next year.
Read, 44, stopped by a demonstration on the side of the highway in Dedham, Massachusetts, to express her gratitude for their support.
“Thank you. I hope I meet all of you one day, and I don’t know you but I love you,” Read told the crowd — then appeared to compare her trials to the fraught war which left nearly 60,000 Americans and millions of Vietnamese dead.
“You’re brave. You would’ve protested the Vietnam War and ended it. And this is the modern equivalent to that, so thank you all,” she said in footage obtained by WCVB.
Far from it, Read was accused of mowing down her boyfriend — Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe — with her car on a drunken night in January 2022 and letting him freeze to death in the snow.
Her trial ended in an explosive mistrial in July — but the next month her attorneys asked that the charges be thrown out, claiming jurors had voted to acquit her of murder but misunderstood deliberation procedures.
The demonstration Read visited Monday was just one of numerous held across Massachusetts to voice support for her after a judge threw out the request to have her charges dropped — paving the way for a new trial in January.
Read’s case sparked a massive turnout of supporters who showed up each day outside the Dedham courthouse to square off against detractors who maintained she murdered O’Keefe.
The couple had been viciously arguing the night of his death, and Read left a series of nasty voicemails on his phone including one in which she said “John! I f–king hate you!”
But Read claimed she was the target of a coverup by O’Keefe’s cop buddies, who her attorneys argued had killed him during a fight that night before trying to pin it on Read.
Read’s new trial is set to begin on January 27.
