Man’s good deed now a nightmare after US police called him a thief on Facebook

After lehighvalleylive.com reached out to the police department about the Facebook posts on Thursday, the June 17 post was edited with a longer explanation about what occurred and an apology was added. — Photo by Joshua Hoehne on Unsplash

It was a Facebook post like so many others that pop up every day, made by police departments in the Lehigh Valley and around the country.

On June 17, the Bethlehem Township Police Department posted photos of a man at a local Walmart and asked for the public’s help in identifying him.