Two Maine police groups condemned Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner for old Reddit posts that were unearthed last week to kick off a backlash to his buzzy campaign.

The Maine Lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police and the Maine State Troopers Association became the first in-state groups to condemn Platner’s posts, saying they have “no place in Maine politics.” The posts included the progressive candidate’s coarse criticism of local police dating back to the “Black Lives Matter” protest movement in 2020.

Platner’s posts came to light after Gov. Janet Mills joined the primary for the right to take on U.S. Sen. Susan Collins in 2026. The controversy bled into this week when the Army and Marine veteran publicly aired a decade-old video of him shirtless at his brother’s we

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