One corrupt cone head down, many many extra to go.
And so farewell, Michael Proctor, the overserved, undereducated “detective” for the Mass. State Police, lastly fired this morning for his abysmal misbehavior as a crooked cop over time, most spectacularly within the ongoing Karen Learn miscarriage of justice.
So many classes right here from outdated songs, beginning with, “Drinkin’ doubles don’t make a party.”
What made Milwaukee well-known has made a loser out of Trooper Proctor, written off by the brand new colonel in his dismissal order as “Mr. Proctor.”
To paraphrase Dean Wormer from Animal Home, “Bald, corrupt and stupid is no way to go through life, Proctor.”
This man was a shame to Barney Fife.
He was so crooked he wanted a corkscrew to get into his jodhpurs within the morning. He threw his dismal profession away like a handful of damaged items of taillight tossed carelessly on a snow-covered crime scene in Canton.
“Proctor Trooper” was what one of many McAlbert shrews affectionately referred to as the loyal stooge through the first Karen Learn trial. He was simply attempting to be a very good good friend, in the best way the time period “good friend” is historically understood in Canton.
Associates aid you transfer, good mates aid you transfer our bodies. Or a minimum of look the opposite manner, and provides any witnesses who would possibly create, you realize, affordable doubt, a very good leaving alone. Simply ask Fortunate Loughran, the tow truck driver who didn’t see something who Proctor, uh, forgot to interview.
At first, Proctor wasn’t even in the midst of Canton’s second cop-involved unsolved homicide in as a few years. He was simply an additional, like his former MSP superiors in “The Departed,” a film about an earlier era of crooked cops.
Now, although, Proctor is the primary to get two within the hat. That’s how these mob motion pictures all the time play out. Jack Nicholson doesn’t get hit till the final reel.
And may you think about how Proctor’s firing should sit together with his bride, Lizzie. She’s married to a thuggish dolt with an IQ of 90, tops, and but he was nonetheless grabbing $146,050 in 2023, which now seems to be his profession yr.
And that doesn’t even embrace no matter “gifts” he was funneling to Lizzie, a Proctor m.o. we realized about from these textual content messages. How did Col. Noble describe them in his you’re-fired memo?
“Derogatory, defamatory, disparaging and/or otherwise inappropriate text messages about a suspect in that investigation.”
What did Proctor say about Karen Learn? That she had a “leaky balloon knot?”
Now his spouse Lizzie involves the belief that she could need to go to work as a cocktail waitress, like Leigha Genduso? Is Scuttlebutts hiring? Funky Murphy’s?
Lizzie’s recommendation, counsels and urgings are little doubt ringing in Michael Proctor’s ears:
“You got fired, you bleepin’ idiot? Why didn’t you go out on the Turnpike – how much money did those guys steal and they’re all getting the kiss in the mail in Florida, even the ones who had to plead out. You bleepin’ idiot!
“Brian Albert’s still got his pension, your drunkard buddy Kevin Albert didn’t get fired for leaving his gun and badge in your cruiser. Even that fat bleep Brian Higgins hasn’t been fired from ATF! What the bleep is wrong with Elon Musk that he can’t DOGE that big POS?”
How’d you prefer to be getting an earful of that, 24/7? It might give a greater man than Michael Proctor a leaky balloon knot, that’s for positive.
Has Proctor Trooper’s outdated boss, Norfolk County District Lawyer Michael “Meatball” Morrissey, been reached for remark but?
He was out final week for the St. Patrick’s Day occasions, and he appeared extra dissipated and bloated than ever, – “a pot-bellied courthouse stooge,” to cite an ideal description of Meatball in a 1953 novel referred to as “The Hot Spot.”
Perhaps Meatball can mortgage Proctor his boat, the Class Motion, for a three-hour cruise….
Is it too late for Karen Learn to place Proctor on her witness checklist for the second trial, which begins, appropriately sufficient, on April 1? Now that he’s acquired nothing to lose, perhaps he’ll flip. As everybody is aware of, a crooked cop by no means stands up. By no means.
He’s the second Proctor to go away the State Police in utter shame. The primary was a century in the past, for fabricating proof towards Sacco and Vanzetti, framed at a trial in the identical Dedham courthouse the place Karen Learn should now stand trial after her acquittal final summer time – there are not any Constitutional protections towards double jeopardy in Norfolk County.
Not so long as Democrats are in energy, a minimum of.
It’s a tragic day for Michael Proctor. However he ought to a minimum of look on the intense facet – spring is nearly right here, and you realize what meaning.
The landscaping trade is hiring. The cruiser, the badge, the gun, they’re all gone.
However no matter else occurs, Proctor, they’ll’t take your rake and pruning shears away from you.
Massachusetts Trooper Michael Proctor fired over Karen Learn case actions
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Ex-Massachusetts State Police Trooper Michael Proctor opens the proof field through the Karen Learn homicide trial at Norfolk Superior Court docket final yr. (Kayla Bartkowski/Pool)
