An Ohio police chief has a message for Facebook trolls: Grow up.

Brimfield Police Chief David Oliver was saddened to see a typical stream of “insults and innuendos” that followed his post offering thoughts and prayers to those injured in Wednesday’s high school stabbing.

And so, Chief Oliver did what Chief Oliver is known to do: He shared a little “unsolicited advice” with his Facebook fans — which number nearly 150,000, an unusually high number for a small-town police department's Facebook page.

“Until we, as adults, learn to stop being angry, insulting each other and picking fights every chance we get, how in heck can we expect our kids to behave any differently?” he wrote in the note. “I guarantee, if you are an Internet troll, generally angry and surly and by all appearances hate the human race, the children around you will act no better than what you are modeling. We have to be the examples for those who are still growing.”

"If you want another opinion, here you go," he continued. "Until adults start leading and acting like adults, we are just spinning our wheels. There is no perfect political party, no perfect way to peel a banana, and no perfect person. Adults insulting each other and cramming political views in our ears in a constant barrage of “the world is ending,” is only making the kids in our society more stressed and angry."

The message, which said all the vitriol “is only making the kids in our society more stressed and angry” has gone viral. Published just 24 hours ago, it’s been shared by nearly 13,000 people, and Facebook users have liked it 33,250 times.

The first comment pretty much sums up everyone’s feeling: “Please run for president.”

The Brimfield Police Department was not available for comment when Mashable called on Wednesday afternoon. But Oliver, who's been growing his Facebook page since October 2013, is no stranger to the Internet.

"If our customers are on Facebook and Twitter, we have to be there engaging them," Oliver said in a June 2013 interview with CNN. "The more we communicate, the more we inform, the less people are suspicious of us."

See the full post from the Brimfield Police Department's Facebook page:

Have something to add to this story? Share it in the comments.