Vanessa Grigoriadis

They believe that somebody could be set up by the cops or have the scales of justice measured against them.

They've never seen it before, and all of a sudden they're like, this could happen to me.

In many ways, the prevailing story here is about corruption and less about whether Karen Reid killed John O'Keefe.

Because one thing that we know from history in the United States is that corruption, like the real enemy, the one that has power over all of us, is something that can unite us even when we disagree on everything else.

And it's important because perhaps some of these people are going to be more likely inclined to believe someone in the future, maybe a person of color, maybe a person without money, when they say they were screwed by the police.

What can we take from this whole story?

I think what we can take from this, and this is not a news story.

It's just a news story to this particular audience in this section of America, right, that...

People get upcharged all the time.

They usually get upcharged in order to force a plea.

And I do believe that Michael Morrissey was expecting that result with Karen Reed.

But the story here is that when someone has the resources to fight back, it can open a can of worms that reveals like the rot inside that can.

And I believe that that's what happened here.

Well, I have a podcast on YouTube called Something's Off, in which me and another podcaster, Mel Barrett, talk about all sorts of criminal stuff.

But we talk about the Reed case a lot because the civil trials are ongoing, etc.

And you can also listen to my podcast where I review other podcasts called Crime Writers On.

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I'm Vanessa Grigoriadis.

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