{"id":66,"date":"2026-05-17T08:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T08:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=66"},"modified":"2026-05-17T08:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T08:36:10","slug":"exclusive-covid-mandates-derailed-massachusetts-cops-careers-theyre-still-picking-up-the-pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: COVID Mandates Derailed Massachusetts Cops\u2019 Careers. They\u2019re Still Picking Up The Pieces."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_1 --> <\/p>\n<p>Christopher Dolan was a respected Massachusetts state trooper for years \u2014 until COVID-19 hit and his bosses declared him a threat to public health.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=64\">Layup For Democrats Turns Into A Violent Scrum For Safe Seat<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dolan served with the Massachusetts State Police (MSP) for more than two decades starting as an intern in 1995, eventually earning local and federal awards for helping to solve cold case murders. His father and uncle were also cops, and he knew he wanted to become one himself when his uncle was killed by a bomb from a car in 1991 while investigating two men plotting a murder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s when I wanted to become a cop,\u201d he told the Daily Caller News Foundation, adding that many colleagues also decided from a young age. \u201cSo, a lot of these guys, it\u2019s like, they grew up as kids \u2014 \u2018I don\u2019t want to be anything but a Mass state trooper.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a Jan. 6, 2022,\u00a0virtual hearing, Dolan faced a camera with a sullen expression as the agency he devoted his life to accused him of \u201cunsatisfactory <span>performance\u201d and \u201cinsubordination\u201d for refusing the COVID vaccine. The MSP had just taken him through several internal hearings\u00a0<\/span>after denying him a religious exemption to former Republican Gov. Charlie Baker\u2019s August 2021 mandate for executive branch workers, footage and records obtained by the DCNF show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you wish to resign prior to the commencement of another personnel investigation?\u201d Detective Captain Daniel Tucker, wearing a COVID mask improperly below his mouth, asked Dolan at the hearing.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_2 --> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbsolutely not, sir,\u201d said Dolan, referred to in hearings as \u201cthe accused.\u201d <strong>(RELATED: Blue State \u2018Hate Crimes\u2019 Official Behind Police Course Comparing Concerned Parent Activists To Neo-Nazis)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dolan remained suspended without pay while fighting legal battles , when he and other troopers won an arbitration ruling that reinstated them with back pay. Throughout the ordeal, he and his wife had to sell their house and his career had the black mark of four \u201cinternal affairs\u201d investigations solely over the vaccine issue, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Dolan and around 30 others, a mix of former uniformed and civilian employees, have since been in a long court battle demanding damages or reinstatement from the MSP over its vaccination crackdown.\u00a0Their stories reflect how COVID vaccine mandates across the public and private sector pushed countless workers out of their jobs.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_3 --> <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former Massachusetts State Trooper Chris Dolan (bottom right) listens to the verdicts in an internal investigation by the Massachusetts State Police over his COVID-19 vaccination refusal during a Jan. 6, 2022 virtual hearing. (Image courtesy of Massachusetts State Police)\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8627725\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8627725\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1365px) 100vw, 1365px\" src=\"https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=1280,height=2499,fit=inside,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DolanHearing.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=1280,height=2499,fit=inside,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DolanHearing.png 1280w, https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=237,height=2499,fit=inside,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DolanHearing-237x120.png 237w, https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=620,height=2499,fit=inside,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DolanHearing-620x313.png 620w, https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=768,height=2499,fit=inside,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DolanHearing-768x388.png 768w\" style=\"width: 100%; height: auto; display: block;\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Former Massachusetts State Trooper Chris Dolan (bottom right) listens to the verdicts in an internal investigation by the Massachusetts State Police over his COVID-19 vaccination refusal during a Jan. 6, 2022 virtual hearing. (Image courtesy of Massachusetts State Police)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Dolan was nine days from retirement when he was suspended, but he made up his mind, he said.\u00a0\u201cI was not getting the shot, come hell or high water. E<\/span>ssentially, they would have had to come to my house and pin me down and put that shot in my arm for me to get that shot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those suing the MSP are a small portion of more than 150 agency employees who were denied exemptions after interviews where they had to demonstrate sincere religious views, said Dolan, who is now retired. Those who took issue with the mandate went down varying paths, from enduring the same hearing process as Dolan to working elsewhere to giving up and taking the shot, he told the DCNF. Gallup polling in August 2021 showed 38% of U.S. workers opposing such mandates from employers.<\/p>\n<p>Obama-appointed U.S. Judge Leo Sorokin ruled in favor of the MSP  and  while allowing three civilian employees\u2019 civil rights claims to proceed, court records show.<\/p>\n<p>Dolan and the remaining plaintiffs are strategizing for an appeal, he told the DCNF.<\/p>\n<p>The MSP declined to comment to the DCNF, citing \u201cpending litigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>\u2018We\u2019ve Been Excluded\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>Dolan, like others,  that they could not take the COVID vaccine knowing that it may be partially made from aborted fetal cell lines due to their religious views against abortion. Dolan also told MSP interviewers that taking the vaccine would be \u201cidolatry\u201d from a Christian standpoint, he told the DCNF.<\/p>\n<p>As a Catholic, former state trooper Samantha Cila refused the vaccine for the same two reasons and worried about how it could affect a pregnancy, according to her court filings and comments to the DCNF. She first submitted to an interview in 2021 designed to assess whether her religious views were sincere. While troopers like Dolan passed that stage, MSP staffers determined Cila had \u201ca personal philosophy\u201d rather than authentic religious beliefs. <strong>(RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers Still Awaiting Justice 3 Years After Firebombing, Vandalism Spree)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne was an attorney and one was a captain who has now been promoted to major, both males,\u201d Cila told the DCNF. \u201cSo obviously, they didn\u2019t understand my thought process on being a woman and carrying a child.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cila was inspired to follow in her father\u2019s footsteps as a state trooper after he died on-duty in a 2005 motorcycle crash while patrolling Boston. The MSP celebrated her leaving its training academy in 2019 with social media posts, telling a sentimental story for local media of her receiving her father\u2019s badge number.<\/p>\n<p>By November 2021, MSP officers were pulling up to her house in cruisers to take the badge, her vehicle with her father\u2019s number, her identification and her gun. Family members and law enforcement colleagues stood facing the officers in her yard to show support, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=62\">Vance Turns Maine Fraud Event Into Midterm Battle Cry<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe captain that took all of that from me was the same captain who had brought flowers to my mom on my dad\u2019s death anniversary for the last 2 years,\u201d Cila said.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt just felt like part of me and part of him was, like, being ripped away from me,\u201d she said of her father.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Like Dolan, Cila faced \u201cinsubordination\u201d and \u201cunsatisfactory performance\u201d charges and trial board hearings for refusing vaccination, she said. She was dishonorably discharged from the MSP in April 2022, and for the first time in her memory, no uniformed officer brought her family flowers at the anniversary of her father\u2019s death the following July, she told the DCNF.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would definitely feel that if we haven\u2019t been forgotten about, it definitely feels like we\u2019ve been excluded,\u201d Cila said. <strong>(RELATED: Mamdani Promises To Get Along With Cops \u2014 Group That Helped Him Wants Jails Emptied)<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"State police walk down a road as protesters rally to demand an end to the state wide 'stay at home advisory' and the new law enforcing everyone to wear a mask in public, outside the Massachusetts State House in Boston, Massachusetts on May 4, 2020. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso\/AFP via Getty Images)\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8627711\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8627711\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" src=\"https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=1280,height=2499,fit=inside,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-1211759400-scaled.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=1280,height=2499,fit=inside,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-1211759400-scaled.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=160,height=2499,fit=inside,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-1211759400-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=620,height=2499,fit=inside,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-1211759400-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=768,height=2499,fit=inside,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-1211759400-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=190,height=2499,fit=inside,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-1211759400-190x142.jpg 190w, https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=70,height=2499,fit=inside,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-1211759400-70x52.jpg 70w\" style=\"width: 100%; height: auto; display: block;\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<p>State police walk down a road as protesters rally to demand an end to the state wide \u2018stay at home advisory\u2019 and the new law enforcing everyone to wear a mask in public, outside the Massachusetts State House in Boston, Massachusetts on May 4, 2020. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3>\u2018Risks To The Public\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>Judge Sorokin agreed with many of the MSP\u2019s claims in his March ruling. Letting troopers conduct \u201ctheir in-person, public-facing duties while unvaccinated would have posed health and safety risks to the public,\u201d while reassigning such duties would impose \u201cundue hardship,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Plaintiffs also failed to show that MSP did not rely on \u201cexisting medical evidence\u201d for its policy, Sorokin ruled. He also denied that the hearing process was unfair.<\/p>\n<p>Cila, who started working for the Middleton Police Department in August 2022, called it \u201castonishing\u201d that she could perform the very functions locally that Baker\u2019s administration deemed dangerous for state workers. Democratic Gov. Maura Healey rescinded Baker\u2019s mandate in March 2023 once 99% of the executive branch complied.<\/p>\n<p>Nationwide pressure to get vaccinated affected Dolan\u2019s household beyond his career, he told the DCNF. Dolan described coming home to his crying wife in 2021 after MSP\u2019s mandate came down. She had already lost her job at a local hospital for refusing the vaccine and knew he might lose his despite being inches from retirement, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018If you tell me right now that this is the way to go, that you want me to get the shots from you, you\u2019re the only one that I would do it for,&#8217;\u201d Dolan described telling her. \u201c\u2018However, you\u2019re not going to want to live with a man who does because I won\u2019t be able to live with myself.&#8217;\u201d <strong>(RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: \u2018People Were Angry\u2019: Inside One Biden Admin COVID Decree That Upended Countless Careers)<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker speaks to the press at the Hynes Convention Center FEMA Mass Vaccination Site on March 30, 2021 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Erin Clark-Pool\/Getty Images)\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8627715\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8627715\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" src=\"https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=1280,height=2499,fit=inside,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-1232026547-scaled.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=1280,height=2499,fit=inside,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-1232026547-scaled.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=181,height=2499,fit=inside,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-1232026547-181x120.jpg 181w, https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=620,height=2499,fit=inside,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-1232026547-620x411.jpg 620w, https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=768,height=2499,fit=inside,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-1232026547-768x509.jpg 768w\" style=\"width: 100%; height: auto; display: block;\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker speaks to the press at the Hynes Convention Center FEMA Mass Vaccination Site on March 30, 2021 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Erin Clark-Pool\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cSo, from that time point, she was like gold,\u201d Dolan said. \u201cShe was like, \u2018Nope, I\u2019m with you.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MSP\u2019s public health threat narrative never made sense to Dolan, especially since he testified in three homicide trials in open court while suspended, he told the DCNF.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cN<\/span><span>o masking, no social distancing, no nothing, unvaccinated, dirty, nasty creature,<\/span><span> right?\u201d Dolan said with a chuckle. \u201cI<\/span><span>f that shows you anything.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s note: This story has been updated to reflect former Gov. Baker\u2019s political party. We regret any confusion.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any legitimate news publisher that can provide a large audience. 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