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Newly revealed racist, antisemitic texts from Karen Read investigator ‘disturbing,' State Police colonel says.Newly revealed racist, antisemitic texts from Karen Read investigator ‘disturbing,' State Police colonel says Editor’s note: This story was updated with statements from Gov.Maura Healey and the attorney retained by Michael Proctor, Matthew Hamel, at 3:40 p.m.on June 4.Racist and antisemitic text messages exchanged by former police investigators in the Karen Read case, released Thursday, were described as “disturbing” by Colonel Geoffrey Noble and underscored his decision to fire former trooper Michael Proctor.“These disturbing messages are entirely inconsistent with any basic standard of decency and certainly with the expectations of a Massachusetts State Trooper,” Colonel Geoffrey Noble said in a statement on Thursday.“These racist, sexist and abhorrent comments absolutely do not reflect the values of the Massachusetts State Police and are not tolerated within our ranks.They underscore and fully support my decision to terminate Michael Proctor,” Noble said.In the 30-page complaint filed Thursday morning, Read’s lawyers quote numerous exchanges between Proctor and former Canton police Sgt.Sean Goode, including messages praising Hitler and ones where they use slurs to describe women, Black people and Jews.Goode resigned earlier this week amid an internal affairs investigation into his conduct.The lawsuit contained several messages over the course of a decade where both officers used racial slurs and made demeaning comments about public figures such as Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, Gov.Maura Healey and even Anne Frank.Maura Healey referred to Noble’s comments in response to the suit.“(Proctor and Goode) are men whose written and recorded communications ...establish entrenched and unrepentant hatred for women, Black Americans, Asian Americans, Jews, Hispanics, Arabs and gay people,” the lawsuit states.Text messages exchanged between former Massachusetts State Police Trooper Michael Proctor and former Canton Police Sgt.Sean Goode were revealed in a new lawsuit filed by Karen Read on Thursday morning.Text messages exchanged between former Massachusetts State Police Trooper Michael Proctor and former Canton Police Sgt.Sean Goode were revealed in a new lawsuit filed by Karen Read on Thursday morning.Text messages exchanged between former Massachusetts State Police Trooper Michael Proctor and former Canton Police Sgt.Sean Goode were revealed in a new lawsuit filed by Karen Read on Thursday morning.Text messages exchanged between former Massachusetts State Police Trooper Michael Proctor and former Canton Police Sgt.Sean Goode were revealed in a new lawsuit filed by Karen Read on Thursday morning.Text messages exchanged between former Massachusetts State Police Trooper Michael Proctor and former Canton Police Sgt.Sean Goode were revealed in a new lawsuit filed by Karen Read on Thursday morning.Text messages exchanged between former Massachusetts State Police Trooper Michael Proctor and former Canton Police Sgt.Sean Goode were revealed in a new lawsuit filed by Karen Read on Thursday morning.Text messages exchanged between former Massachusetts State Police Trooper Michael Proctor and former Canton Police Sgt.Sean Goode were revealed in a new lawsuit filed by Karen Read on Thursday morning.Text messages exchanged between former Massachusetts State Police Trooper Michael Proctor and former Canton Police Sgt.Sean Goode were revealed in a new lawsuit filed by Karen Read on Thursday morning.Text messages exchanged between former Massachusetts State Police Trooper Michael Proctor and former Canton Police Sgt.Sean Goode were revealed in a new lawsuit filed by Karen Read on Thursday morning.Text messages exchanged between former Massachusetts State Police Trooper Michael Proctor and former Canton Police Sgt.Sean Goode were revealed in a new lawsuit filed by Karen Read on Thursday morning.After telling Goode about a multi-car crash in Canton, Proctor said, “Actually, take your time, I saw a (expletive) was involved, so I wouldn’t rush if you’re working.Let them die,” according to the complaint.Goode also described Boston Mayor Michelle Wu as a “little (expletive)” and said he ”Never understood whiny Jew humor." Read filed the lawsuit in Bristol County Superior Court with claims of corruption and a “culture of bias.” Her lawyers said the lawsuit is “about two institutions ...and a culture of bias and corruption that they built, tolerated, and hid from the public for years” in a statement Thursday morning.State police had terminated Michael Proctor on March 19, 2025, largely due to his conduct in the Read investigation, during which he sent a series of unprofessional and derogatory texts about Read, including one in which he said he wished she would kill herself.The investigation into the death of Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe pre-dates Noble’s tenure.Since becoming superintendent, Noble has pushed a series of reforms aimed at strengthening accountability and conduct across the department, including restructuring leadership roles, expanding mandatory training for investigators and creating an Office of Organizational Excellence to monitor performance.Those efforts have extended to the State Police Academy, where officials began to overhaul the agency’s long-standing paramilitary-style training model after an external review found significant flaws contributing to injuries, high dropout rates and broader cultural concerns.The review — commissioned after the 2024 death of recruit Enrique Delgado-Garcia during a training exercise — produced more than 100 recommended changes, prompting leadership shakeups, new oversight and a push to modernize training standards and trainee support.Norfolk County prosecutors had accused Read of backing her Lexus SUV into her boyfriend, Boston police Officer John O’Keefe, after a night of drinking in January 2022, and leaving him to die in the snow outside the Canton home of a fellow officer.She was acquitted last June of all charges having to do with his death, convicting her only of a misdemeanor operating under the influence charge.Goode, one of the officers who responded to the scene of O’Keefe’s death, resigned from his position effective Tuesday, the town select board announced during a meeting.Goode was placed on administrative leave on Oct.24, 2025, after town officials learned of “allegations of misconduct.” “Michael Proctor and Sean Goode did not slip through the cracks; they are emblematic of the failure to responsibly exercise the trust and faith the public puts in these institutions,” Read’s lawyers said in a statement.An attorney for Proctor, Matthew Hamel, that the “focus on anything other than Ms.Read’s own conduct on the night Officer O’Keefe was killed is as telling as it is predictable.” “Events in Mr.Proctor’s personal life have been reviewed, ad nauseum, by a grand jury, the District Attorney and the Massachusetts State Police.It is a matter of undisputed fact that anything Mr.Proctor did or said in his personal life, years before Officer O’Keefe was killed, had no bearing whatsoever on the investigation of Karen Read,” Hamel said.“In point of fact, the evidence that Karen Read killed John O’Keefe by backing up and striking him with her 6,000-pound Lexus SUV, while highly intoxicated, is overwhelming,” the statement read.MassLive reporter Luis Fieldman contributed to this report.Karen Read lawsuits Read the original article on MassLive.Add MassLive as a Preferred Source by clicking here.