Forgetfulness runs rampant in Canton

Is a “false memory” anything like a lie?

Asking for a friend… a friend in the FBI.

Did it ever occur to anybody in the town of Canton to ever, you know, tell the truth? Especially to the FBI, if maybe only because it’s a crime to lie to them.

First it was Jen McTooth, er McCabe. Her first thought when the G-men asked her name was was to lie. Then she ran upstairs and called some of her co-conspirators, I mean friends, and when the FBI asked how many calls she’d made, she lied to the G-men again.

Didn’t you always assume that it was a crime to lie to the feds anywhere, anytime.

Except in Canton, we now learn.

C’mon down Kelly Diva, I mean Dever, of the Boston Police Department, formerly of the Canton PD.

She was testifying at the murder retrial of Karen Read. Despite her years on two rather troubled police departments, she doesn’t seem to know how to testify properly, that is, how to frame, shall we say, her testimony, in order to frame… oh never mind.

First, you never let the jury see you sweat, Officer Diva. Nobody is expecting the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth from a cop, especially a cop from Canton.

“I’m on the stand to tell the truth,” she stammered, her voice cracking. “That’s my livelihood.”

Except, apparently, when she talks to the FBI.

She was on duty as a dispatcher on the day John O’Keefe was murdered. She told the feds she saw two of the shadiest cops in Canton – Police Chief Kenny Berkowitz, now deceased, and ATF agent Brian Higgins – loitering around the alleged death vehicle.

“For a wildly long time,” defense attorney Alan Jackson pointed out.

A wildly long time. This is important because there are multiple questions about the taillight pieces from Read’s car that mysteriously appeared at the death scene days, and weeks later, but not in the immediate hours.

The more time elapsed after the crash, the more these pieces appeared. And they got larger and larger and larger, for three weeks. It’s Canton, baby.

So it’s important to know who was doing what to Karen Read’s car, and when.

Her testimony, which she viewed on the surveillance camera, would have been devastating to the persecution, er prosecution.

So she had to change it. It’s part of the code. She, uh, mis-remembered. With great specificity, but these things happen. In Norfolk County anyway. And the recantations always, always benefit the crooked cops.

Defense attorney Alan Jackson asked Officer Diva the obvious question about her sudden change of memory.

“Have you ever heard of something called the blue wall of silence?” he asked. There was an objection by Mob mouthpiece Hank Brennan, and it was of course sustained because… Norfolk County.

Officer Diva reeks of DEI. She says she’s only testified in about a dozen cases. She claims that when she told the defense she was changing her recollection, they told her they would charge her with “perjury.”

“Have you ever seen any defense attorney,” Jackson calmly asked her, “charge anyone with a crime, ever?”

“Personally, no.”

Because they can’t. Not even in Norfolk County, where the Constitution is null and void.

Potential witnesses are supposed to avoid watching trial coverage, so that their testimony is not influenced by what other testimony is offered. It’s called a sequestration order. Jackson asked if the sworn officer if she knew what a sequestration order is.

“No,” she said.

First she testified the defense witnesses said they’d tear her a new you-know-what. Then she said they told her they’d “eat her alive.”

After she saw, and then didn’t see the two shady cops in the sally port, she suddenly got a job with the Boston PD. Another nationwide search!

I was hoping Read’s attorneys would ask Diva if, before she decided to change her testimony, she was spoken to by her fellow Canton townie, former BPD Supt-in-Chief Gregory Long.

Another dodgy cop from Canton — what a coincidence. His wife is a hack judge in Norfolk County because of course she is. Too bad they missed their opportunity to drag yet more hacks into this catastrophe.

Long was the acting BPD superintendent when John O’Keefe was murdered. This was Long of Canton’s official statement about the death of O’Keefe of Canton on the lawn of still another BPD cop from Canton, Brian Albert:

“Today the Massachusetts State Police and the Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office arrested the person responsible for John’s death.”

No allegedlys in there. No “innocents until proven guilty.” Because Long is from Canton. Meatball Morrissey arrested her, so she must be guilty. Just like Sandra Birchmore committed suicide, right, and her cop boyfriend had nothing to do with it?

We don’t need no stinkin’ trials in Norfolk County. Reform ‘em with a rope!

As if Officer DEI Diva didn’t get the message, the very ethical police commissioner of the City of Boston, Michael Cox, called the rookie cop into his office for a sit down.

“Do the right thing,” he told her. Wink wink nudge nudge. He also told Diva the BPD had her back. Of course they did!

The comish always has his officers’ backs. Just ask Officer Triston Champagnie. Cox took care of him after he almost killed his neighbor by firing off another cop’s gun. He got a pass. A couple of months later Champagnie was involved in a car chase on Morrissey Boulevard that ended up with three teenagers dead.

How’s that doing-the-right-thing m.o. working out for you, Commissioner Cox?

Back when John Gotti was the Mafia boss of New York, a concerned citizen saw him basically killing a guy. First the witness testified truthfully, then he came down with one of those Canton-like cases of “false memory.”

The headline in the New York Post the next day was:

“I Forgotti”

Yesterday was Kelly Dever’s “I Forgotti” moment.

Good job, Kelly! You took one for the team, like in Goodfellas.

“Never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut.”

My prediction is that she will promoted to BPD Det. DEI “I Forgotti” Diva in three… two… one.