Chief says Hopedale police Fb web page hacked, anti-LGBTQ+ message posted

An anti-trans Fb put up that described cops taking pictures a trans lady was posted to the Hopedale Police Division’s web page late Tuesday evening. Hopedale’s police chief says the division’s account was hacked, and that the division didn’t write the put up.

Chief Mark Giovanella stated in an announcement Wednesday that the division is working with cybersecurity officers and Fb to get the put up taken down. He advised WHDH on Wednesday that the division was locked out of its Fb account.

The message within the put up “doesn’t align with the values, rules, or professionalism of our police division,” the chief stated within the assertion. “The posted message was a hoax designed to trigger shock and alarm to our neighborhood and followers.”

The put up advised a narrative by which Hopedale police found a trans lady doing medicine in a girls’s lavatory. They then supposedly opened fireplace on her, and have been later “slandered by the liberal media” for what that they had completed. The put up repeatedly implied that the trans lady was not a lady.

The division had their Fb web page taken down Wednesday afternoon, however by 7 p.m. that day, each the web page and the put up have been again up. A spokesperson for the division stated she didn’t know the way or why the web page was again up, and that the division has “no thought” who was liable for the hack.

“We are able to guarantee our neighborhood we’re aggressively addressing this situation, and we’ll proceed to offer the companies to our neighborhood and followers that they’re accustomed to,” Giovanella stated within the assertion.

No different city social media accounts or web sites have been compromised, the police chief advised WHDH.