A Connecticut State Trooper was investigated by Internal Affairs after he made social media posts calling for President Donald Trump to “go after” Attorney General William Tong over the state’s spending for illegal immigrants and the Trust Act and demanding that Sen. Richard Blumenthal stand when the president is speaking.
Trooper First Class John Myer was found by Internal Affairs to have violated Connecticut State Police policy on social media usage when he made “incendiary” posts to his social media page on which he was pictured wearing his state police uniform and seated on a state police motorcycle.
“President Trump. When are you going to act on Connecticut’s Trust Act? When will you go after Attorney General Tong?” Myer wrote in a social media post, according to the January 28, 2026, IA report. “How about driver’s licenses to illegals, given in all languages? What about our safe haven cities? Please help! CT spent 1.3 Billion on illegals.”
“Blumenthal you better start standing when the President is speaking,” Myer continued. “Unless he’s speaking about real veterans and then you can sit.”
There were further posts of images related to Connecticut’s healthcare spending for undocumented immigrants, and state spending on “illegal immigrants,” in general.
The Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection (DESPP) policy on social media states that employees should “exercise caution” when posting to social media and “consider whether personal thoughts he or she publish may be misunderstood as expressing specific opinions of the agency.”
“If DESPP personnel identify his/her employment with DESPP, he/she assumes responsibility for representing DESPP in a positive light and professional manner and shall not post any material that may negatively reflect on DESPP, whether on or off duty,” the policy states.
A complaint about the posts was submitted to the state police by an anonymous source in March 2025, according to the report, and the investigation was concluded in January 2026. The investigator wrote that Myer was on workers’ compensation throughout the investigation and was therefore unable to interview him, but concluded that Myer’s actions violated the State Police’s social media policy.
Under the stipulated agreement reached between Myer, the union, and IA, Myer would not receive any discipline, but the agreement would be retained by labor relations in case of “any future progressive discipline which may occur involving substantially similar conduct.”
Myer is already a defendant in a federal lawsuit alleging he used his police powers to stalk and harass an individual with whom he had a personal issue, including allegedly accessing that individual’s medical records under the false pretense of conducting an investigation.
A 2023 IA investigation into Myer’s conduct substantiated numerous allegations against Myer, and the lawsuit alleges he was improperly allowed to continue working as a state trooper, creating a risk for the public.
Attorney General William Tong has filed over forty lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s various executive orders and actions and maintains that Connecticut is not a “sanctuary state,” and Sen. Blumenthal announced in August 2025 that he was launching an investigation into reports of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) using excessive force and potentially illegal tactics.
Under Connecticut’s Trust Act, local and state police are prohibited from cooperating with federal immigration officers unless the individual sought by immigration officers has convictions for serious crimes or is on a terrorist watch list. The General Assembly has also advanced legislation that will place restrictions on federal officers operating in Connecticut.
The Trump administration has filed a lawsuit against the State of Connecticut and the City of New Haven, looking to invalidate the Trust Act and New Haven’s local policies.
Myer is certainly not the first officer to be cited for social media postings. Although he received no punishment, police officers in other departments have received discipline for making politically or racially charged social media posts in violation of department policies.
In 2019, a Naugatuck police officer was suspended without pay for five days after posting videos to social media making comments about immigrants; a Hartford police officer in 2019 was placed under investigation for disparaging remarks made on social media about an area of Hartford; and a Stratford police officer was suspended for three days without pay in 2020 for calling Black Lives Matter a terrorist organization on social media.
In 2020, Naugatuck Police Chief Steven Hunt was investigated over social media posts made by his daughter, but it was ultimately determined there was no just cause for discipline, because Hunt had not made the posts.
“Based on this investigation, the undisputed evidence indicated that Trooper First Class Myer’s social media posts represented himself as a member of the Connecticut State Police and were interpreted in a way that negatively reflected on the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection,” investigator Joel Portorreal wrote.
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When did freedom of speech become illegal, inn a country, founded on limitless freedom of speech.
Connecticut izzz definitely knot that constitution state.
That trooper is a disgrace and obviously a ignorant idiot. I could say much more but I will not stoop to his disgusting level. Hopefully someone else sues him.
This isn’t a one-off, it’s a documented pattern of abuse of power and disobedience reflected in multiple sustained Internal Affairs findings across separate investigations. Serious violations have been sustained, yet no meaningful consequence. Appears Myer remains employed and pension-eligible. At what point do sustained findings actually lead to accountability? Make it make sense.