After Karen Read was acquitted in the death of Boston police officer John O'Keefe, several witnesses who were present the night he died — and later testified in court — issued a joint statement, breaking their silence on the verdict and its aftermath.

Now that Karen Read’s criminal trial for the murder of John O’Keefe has ended — with her acquittal on all charges except drunken driving — the O’Keefe family’s civil case against her can