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Worcester blogger charged with witness intimidation, conspiracy
By adamg on Wed, 10/11/2023 - 3:33pm
MassLive.com reports on today's arraignment of Aidan "Turtleboy" Kearney on charges that include calling the wife of a state trooper working on the murder case against Karen Read, accused of running down her boyfriend, a Boston Police officer, in Canton.
Kearney was also charged, in Stoughton District Court, with working with a fan who worked as a dispatcher at a police department in eastern Massachusetts to dig up information related to the case, specifically ownership information based on car license plates.
Kearney was released on personal recognizance.
Avon Police announced today they had put a dispatcher on paid leave:
The dispatcher will remain on leave pending an internal investigation and pending the outcome of an investigation being conducted by a special prosecutor under the Norfolk District Attorney's Office into alleged inappropriate and illegal use of law enforcement databases, which dispatchers have access to.
Innocent, etc.
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Taking out Hateful Trash
This is satisfying karma for the keyboard bully.
Should have just followed the
Should have just followed the usual Boston journalistic practice of reporting on city hall press releases.
Or, you know
the usual journalistic practice pretty much everywhere of not harassing witnesses in a murder trial because you don't like that they don't support your weird conspiracy theory.
Don't forget peacefully
Don't forget peacefully telling a witness' s neighbors to pressure her to change her testimony with a bullhorn.
Yikes
I've seen this site / some of these articles and legit thought this guy was in his 20s. Plenty of attacks on young people, far younger him. Don't care of the circumstances, this guy needs a life / 'his' site needs to be shut down. The epitome of what is wrong with social media.
you know what they say...
Forty is the new 20.
Except he looks 60
He seems ready to audition for the next gen Mister Six.
His tactics are deplorable
My guess is that his sources were members of law enforcement. The Avon dispatcher is the first to go probably not the last. The problem I can see coming is first amendment auditors that record interactions between the police and the public will now be subject to arrest.
What this is
Is corruption at its finest.
This used to be a fascinating case
It began in an odd fashion, with the actual weird crime and the arrest of a suspect.
Then, there was a defense theory that could cause reasonable doubt in a jury, as claims of an investigation moving in a single direction and ignoring other possible suspects is plausible.
Then it went way too conspiracy theory.
Now we have witness intimidation.
I'm just glad I don't do jury duty in Norfolk County.
Exactly
I remember when the story broke, it was snowing hard. I thought, when 4 adults drive drunk all day you are lucky that there was only one death. Morally, Karen Read is not the only one at fault. But that isn't how criminal law works. But this vast conspiracy of drunk people makes no sense.
But here’s the thing
I’m not convinced Karen Read is at fault. Her “confession” sounds like the one from My Cousin Vinny. Conversely, intimidating witnesses isn’t the best look.
But that’s why they have trials and why defense attorneys do what they do.
well thats reasonable
Being unsure that she is guilty is a far cry from badgering and threatening witnesses that don't agree with you.
Wow
This is one of those rare times where we are utterly in agreement.
Yeah...
I've ventured a bit down this rabbit hole; watched the September hearing in which the defense seemed quite strong in laying the groundwork for reasonable doubt. Also worth noting that she has an ardent base of public support apart from Turtleboy. Though a very recent Boston Magazine article details ways that her existing account doesn't add up.
https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2023/09/27/canton-karen-read/
If this happened in Texas . . .
could imagine the ledes framing it as the corrupt fascist state persecuting a dissident journalist.
And if my grandmother had wheels...
could imagine the ledes about the new human bicycle.
Journalist?
Witness intimidation of this particular turtle flavor isn't journalism - it is harassment.
Are any of our local journalists defending this guy?
Or is it, like here, "I report, you decide"?
although a stretch...
calling him that, but Howie Carr is very supportive of the punk of course.
Ya know?
Caveman solidarity.
It's a thing.
witness intimidation is not journalism
There is video of him asking a witness's neighbors to pressure her.