Weeks after public outcry, N.H. police chief's Facebook post rebuking a local restaurant …

A screenshot of the Facebook post published on the Franklin Police Department’s page on February 16, 2023.Via Facebook“I welcome honest discourse, even if it runs counter to my own,” he wrote in the since-deleted post. “But facts are important and should not be ignored because they may be a counterpoint to an expressed opinion.”Kovacs called the chief’s pushback a form of “retaliation” that sparked a fresh wave of online harassment against her, as the Globe reported earlier this month.Goldstein’s 379-word statement was publicly available on the department’s page for at least three weeks after it sparked public outcry. It had collected hundreds of comments questioning his decision to rebuke a community member by name. Some commenters called for his resignation. Then it disappeared.Kovacs said her partner, a police officer who used to work for Goldstein, saw the post had been taken down. He alerted her on Monday, but nobody from the city has contacted her, she said.“I’m surprised they would just let it mysteriously fade away like that,” she added.City Manager Judie Milner, who has spoken publicly in support of Goldstein this month, said on Tuesday that the chief’s post was removed without explanation because that’s how the department typically
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