A Canton Choose Board member who testified within the Karen Learn homicide trial says he’ll maintain himself to a better commonplace following “two recent verbal altercations with members of the public” exterior of his position as an elected official.
Christopher Albert, father of Colin Albert and brother of retired Boston police officer Brian Albert, apologized throughout Tuesday night time’s rowdy Choose Board assembly for the incidents he described as “inappropriate” and “unbecoming.”
Members of the Albert household are principals within the protection’s third-party killer idea.
“Despite the tremendous harassment, stress, and anxiety that my family, extended family, and I have been subjected to over the past 16 months, my interactions were inappropriate,” Christopher Albert stated, studying a ready assertion. “And as an elected official, I am held to a higher standard, and I understand the residents of Canton expect public officials always to conduct themselves professionally and focus on the business of the town.
“I apologize for my recent reaction,” he added, “and will refrain from any further public incidents that are unbecoming as a member of this Canton Select Board.”
The apology got here moments earlier than Choose Board Chairman Michael Loughran introduced Albert’s brother, Kevin Albert, has been on paid administrative go away from his position as a detective with the Canton Police Division for the reason that center of June.
Kevin Albert investigated the Learn homicide case with State Trooper Michael Proctor, who on Monday was suspended with out pay after John O’Keefe’s bloody physique was discovered coated in snow on Brian Albert’s entrance garden, 34 Fairview Street in Canton, on Jan. 29, 2022.
O’Keefe, Learn’s boyfriend of two years and a 16-year Boston Police officer, died at age 46.
At the very least one of many incidents Christopher Albert was referring to unfolded exterior of his downtown enterprise, D & E Pizza, on June 23, the Sunday earlier than jurors within the Learn homicide trial began deliberations.
The drama concerned Aidan “Turtleboy” Kearney, a blogger who has extensively coated the case and is indicted on a number of counts of witness intimidation.
These counts barred Kearney from being inside Norfolk Superior Court docket in Dedham for Albert’s testimony, together with that of Colin Albert, Michael Proctor, Jennifer and Matthew McCabe, Brian and Nicole Albert, Yuriy Bukhenik, Brian Albert Jr., and Julie Nagel.
A few of these witnesses are seen in a video of the altercation that Kearney posted on social media. Canton police charged two individuals – Jillian Daniels, Brian Albert’s sister-in-law, and Jim Farris – with assault and battery in reference to an assault on Kearney, MassLive reported.
The expletive-laced tirade included Daniels and Farris knocking Kearney’s cellphone out of his hand on separate events.
All through the video, Christopher Albert is heard telling Kearney, “Two seconds, I would beat your face up and down this sidewalk,” “This guy is a piece of (expletive). He goes after these women, bangs them all, so then when he’s done with her, he gets another one, and then another one,” amongst different remarks.
In a weblog put up following the incident, Kearney defined that he traveled to Canton that night “to conduct a test” to verify the validity of an assertion made by a state witness throughout testimony. He then bought a meal at CF McCarthy’s, an oft-mentioned bar through the trial, earlier than the altercation went down.
A lady who recognized herself as a resident of Canton is heard within the background of the video asking Albert, “Why do you think the whole town is the way they are? You’re supposed to represent this town … You’re supposed to be a representative of this town.”
