D.C.’s attorney general charges Jamaal Bowman for triggering fire alarm

The D.C. Attorney General has charged Rep. Jamaal bowman with a misdemeanor after he triggered a Capitol Campus fire alarm last week, resulting in a long evacuation of a House Office Building during intense negotiations about a government funding measure.

The documents of charging conclude that there is “probable reason to believe the defendant intentionally or knowingly issued a false alarm in the District of Columbia.”

Bowman will be arraigned in D.C. Superior Court on Thursday morning. Bowman is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday morning in D.C. Superior Court.

Bowman stated in a press release that he is “grateful for the swift resolution.”

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He said: “I am accountable for activating the fire alarm. I will pay the fine and hope that these charges are eventually dropped.”

Capitol Police announced earlier on Wednesday that they had referred the case to prosecutors after an investigation. Bowman (D.Y.), a congressman from New York, pulled the fire alarm in the chaos that preceded a vote at the end September on a GOP funding stopgap bill. His office described it as an error caused by Bowman’s rush to vote. Bowman (D-NY) pulled a fire alarm during the chaotic leadup to a vote on a GOP stopgap funding bill at the end of September. His office described it as ‘a mistake, driven by the congressman rushing to vote.