Kelly Dever

“Given factual information that makes it so I know I did not. So the answer is no.”

Dever's current position that her Sallyport observation was a false memory, contradicting her 2023 interview statement.

“That was my recollection at the time.”

The retained quote records Dever’s characterization of her earlier account; this record does not establish the prior law-enforcement interview statement as sworn or oath-equivalent.

“He supports me and just wanted me to tell the truth up here, and his words were 'do the right thing.'”

Dever testified that Commissioner Cox told her he supported her and wanted her to tell the truth and ‘do the right thing.’ She said he did not intend to guide her either way.

Jackson asked whether any Canton Police Department member had interviewed Dever during the investigation into O'Keefe's death; Dever answered no.

“I told them on the day of that I saw that. I didn't make any indications it was anything bad. I just said I saw them, and it was in good faith that I believed I saw that.”

Dever frames her original statement as innocent and her retraction as evidence-based, not coerced

“They were looking for me to say that I saw Higgins and Berkowitz in the garage with the car.”

Dever said call participants wanted her to say she saw Higgins and Berkowitz in the garage with the car.

“They became very aggressive, raised their voices, and the one word that I can very definitely remember is they said that they would charge me with perjury.”

Dever's account that call participants became aggressive and that one male defense-team member said they would charge her with perjury.

“There is discomfort with the way that there's attempting to guide what my testimony is, but I don't feel any need to fall into it because I'm here to speak the truth on the stand.”

Dever signals discomfort with the defense's direct examination approach while asserting independence

“Oh, they did. Yes. I contacted the FBI regarding it.”

Dever says she contacted the FBI and describes an email exchange and legal-team response; she then says she has no FBI report documenting the alleged threat.

“Sarah Levinson.”

Dever identifies Sarah Levinson as the one person connected to the case whom she considered a personal friend.

“Correct. In small clips. Yes.”

Dever admits watching trial footage despite a sequestration order she claims not to have known about

“Yes, they wanted me to repeat a lie — at that point, given it would have been with malicious intent to repeat it.”

Dever escalates her characterization of the defense's conduct from pressure to demanding she knowingly commit perjury.

“My entire job revolves around what I say on the stand right now. If I were to lie, I lose my job. I lose everything. I'm here to tell the truth. I cannot lie while sitting on this stand.”

Dever says she understood truthful testimony to be a condition of keeping her job.

“If I was to lie, then yes.”

Dever maintains her recantation by framing the original statement as a lie, but the answer concedes the implication framework Jackson constructed.

“No. Never. No.”

Emphatic denial that she ever suggested Higgins and Berkowitz tampered with the defendant's vehicle

“I have no one to protect.”

Direct rebuttal to the defense implication from re-redirect that Dever's career incentives motivated her to shield fellow officers