Jacquelyn Starer (DOJ).
A Massachusetts doctor who admitted to punching a police officer in the head during the Capitol riot will spend the better part of a year behind bars.
Jacquelyn Starer , 71, was sentenced to nine months in prison on Thursday. The former gynecologist and addiction medicine specialist had pleaded guilty in April to eight charges relating to her role in the insurrection, including two felony counts of obstruction of law enforcement during a civil disorder and assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers.
According to prosecutors, Starer drove from Massachusetts to Washington, D.C., to attend Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally objecting to the certification of President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral win. She then joined the crowd of thousands of Trump supporters outside the Capitol, eventually entering the building at 2:51 p.m., almost 45 minutes after the building was initially breached .
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She made her way to the Rotunda, where prosecutors say she shoved rioters to get to the front of the crowd — and even pushed away a fellow rioter who tried to hold her back.