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riversedge

(80,810 posts) Wed Dec 28, 2022, 11:51 PM Dec 2022

Mass. Doctor Accused of Punching Officer at Jan. 6 Capitol Riot Appears in DC Court

whow. she was arrested about One year and 11 months AFTER the insurrection!!

I have to wonder if she feared being arrested all along??
Anyway--sad to be so hateful and end your career like this.

Mass. Doctor Accused of Punching Officer at Jan. 6 Capitol Riot Appears in DC Court
https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/mass-doctor-accused-of-punching-officer-at-jan-6-capitol-riot-due-in-federal-court/2929890/
By Asher Klein and Eli Rosenberg • Published December 27, 2022 • Updated on December 27, 2022 at 2:16 pm
FBI

An image appearing to show Dr. Jacquelyn Starer punching a police officer during the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Starer was arrested Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022.

A Massachusetts doctor who was arrested last week for allegedly punching a police officer during the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol appeared in federal court in Washington, D.C., Tuesday.

Dr. Jacquelyn Starer, 68, appeared in District of Columbia federal court by videoconference on charges including felony civil disorder and assaulting, resisting or impeding officers.

She accepted the conditions of her release – including that she can’t go to D.C. except for court hearings and that she must submit to drug testing if prosecutors request it – and is due back in court on Feb. 9.

Starer first appeared in court last week after her arrest. Outside of court the practicing doctor from Ashland who worked at Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital did not want to talk about the allegations against her, why she may have been in D.C. that day or anything related to the case.

If convicted, she faces up to 12 years in prison.

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Bodycam footage from a Washington, D.C., Metropolitan police officer show Dr. Jacquelyn Starer hitting an officer in the Capitol Rotunda, according to a court document