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Massachusetts doctor may have thrown away her career for Trump [1]

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Date: 2022-12-22

Jacquelyn Starer, a 68-year-old addiction recovery specialist from Ashland, west of Boston, was arrested on Tuesday on charges of assaulting a federal officer, civil disorder, engaging in physical violence in a restricted building, engaging in disorderly conduct on the Capitol grounds, engaging in physical violence on the Capitol grounds, and parading in the Capitol. According to an affidavit by Jennifer Morin, an FBI agent based in Worcester, the most serious charge comes from bodycam footage showing Starer punching a female Metro Police officer on the side of the head on the west side of the Rotunda.

Watch footage from WBZ-TV here. Starer is easily spotted with her red jacket and red “TRUMP 45” toboggan.

According to the affidavit, someone dropped a dime on Starer five days after the insurrection. According to a tipster, Starer bragged to a friend that she was going to the Capitol and was “prepared” for things to get heavy—to the point of wearing “a mesh knife-proof jacket” and carrying several bottles of pepper spray.

Earlier this year, one of Starer’s former co-workers identified Starer from several photos sampled from bodycam footage and open-source video of the insurrection. Yes, that’s right—a former co-worker. According to both WBZ-TV and WCVB-TV, Starer was a per diem doctor at Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital in Jamaica Plain in Boston, but she is no longer employed there.

Starer was arrested on Tuesday morning and made her first appearance later that day. Watch footage of that appearance from WCVB here.

WCVB interviewed a number of Starer’s neighbors. Understandably, they were stunned that she would sink to such a low level. In marked contrast to her demeanor on Jan. 6, she wasn’t willing to talk at all to reporters.

The obvious question—why did it take almost two years to arrest Starer? Well, considering Starer’s profession, on paper she has the wherewithal to stretch things out. One would hope that another reason would be that she finally had the good sense to turn herself in and plead guilty. After all, according to NBC Boston, she faces up to 12 years in prison if convicted on all charges. Plus, even one felony conviction would spell the end of her medical career; most states will not grant a medical license to a convicted felon.

Starer is apparently pretty well respected in the New England medical community; according to NBC Boston, she was once president of the Massachusetts Society of Addiction Medicine. Perhaps now she’s starting to realize she threw all of that away for the sake of Trump.

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