Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner (D.) called a small-town Maine police chief "trash" for refusing to take a knee in solidarity with Black Lives Matter protesters, and referred to other police officers as "authoritarian bullies" in deleted Internet posts. In a Reddit post, Platner lambasted the chief of police in Ellsworth for declining to kneel at a June 2, 2020, protest in the city over the death of George Floyd. According to Platner, who lives near Ellsworth, the chief told the crowd of