Democrat Rep. Jamaal Bowman from New York, who pulled the fire alarm nearly four weeks ago to impede Congress from passing the continuing resolution and then lied about it, is set to be in court tomorrow morning for one misdemeanor charge.
Here’s the news:
BREAKING: Rep Jamaal Bowman has been criminally charged with one misdemeanor count of falsely pulling a fire alarm for the September 30th incident in the Cannon Office Building, according to court documents, @dnlbrns & I report.
— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) October 25, 2023
CAPITOL POLICE: "We finished our investigation. Our agents gathered all the evidence, packaged it up, and sent the entire case with charges to prosecutors for their consideration.”
— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) October 25, 2023
Capitol Police says their case has been done for a while, and that they presented a probable cause arrest warrant for 22DC1319A – False Fire Alarm – to the attorney general.
— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) October 25, 2023
Per @dnlbrns, the charge against Rep Bowman carries a maximum penalty of six months in jail. He has been ordered to appear in DC Superior Court tomorrow morning at 9:30am for his arraignment.
— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) October 25, 2023
I know they are just going to get him go with a fine, which he now admits he’ll pay because he really did do it. But I wish they’d throw his butt in jail for at least a few weeks, if not the entire six months. It’s one thing to pull a fire alarm in a school. But to pull it in the Capitol building??? And now that we have a new speaker, I hope they vote to throw him out of Congress.