MA revokes physician’s proper to resume medical license for Jan. 6 assault – NBC Boston
Years after punching a police officer through the assault on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a Massachusetts physician has misplaced her proper to resume her medical license.
Dr. Jacquelyn Starer of Ashland pleaded responsible in 2024 to 2 felony counts of civil dysfunction and assaulting, resisting, or impeding sure officers, in addition to misdemeanor offenses.
The Massachusetts Board of Registration in Drugs introduced its disciplinary motion in opposition to Starer on Thursday.
The board mentioned it had revoked her proper to resume her license “after discovering that she was amongst a crowd which stormed and breached the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, and that she struck a Metropolitan Police Officer together with her closed fist.”
Dr. Jacquelyn Starer is seen on digicam within the U.S. Capitol through the assault on Jan. 6, 2021, and is accused of punching a police officer.
Starer first acquired a license to apply medication within the Bay State in 1983. After being charged within the Capitol assault, she “entered right into a Voluntary Settlement To not Follow,” the board mentioned.
Along with the felony costs, Starer pleaded responsible to misdemeanor counts of getting into and remaining in a restricted constructing or grounds, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted constructing or grounds, participating in bodily violence in a restricted constructing or grounds, disorderly conduct in a Capitol constructing, act of bodily violence within the Capitol grounds or buildings, and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol constructing.
On the time of her arrest in December of 2022, Starer labored at Brigham and Girls’s Faulkner Hospital, which later mentioned she was “not energetic at our group.”
She was sentenced in September of 2024 to 9 months of house confinement, telling a federal decide on the time that she wasn’t happy with her actions that day, together with her “regrettable encounter” with the officer.
“I settle for full accountability for my actions that day, and I really want purpose had prevailed over my feelings,” she mentioned.
When he returned to workplace lower than 5 months later, President Donald Trump issued sweeping pardons for individuals who took half within the Capitol assault, together with violent offenders.
