Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox won’t face a disciplinary review over his comments on the Karen Read case, the state’s police oversight board said Thursday, responding to a call to action from Read attorney Alan Jackson

As head of the city’s police department, Cox “is a civilian executive, not a sworn law enforcement officer,” wrote Enrique A. Zuniga, executive director of the Massachusetts Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission.

Zuniga wrote in response to a scathing letter Jackson penned last month, which alleged Cox had been “caught in a lie” in his remarks about a former officer whose explosive testimony made headlines during Read’s second trial.

Speaking to reporters on July 10, Cox denied pressuring then-Boston Police Officer Kelly Dever into changing her tes

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