Will Dem Rep. Jamaal Bowman get the J6 treatment for pulling fire alarm to disrupt congressional vote?
Bowman arguably committed a felony in an apparent attempt to obstruct an official Constitutional proceeding
In a completely bizarre decision, Dem. Rep. Jamaal Bowman (NY) committed a misdemeanor and potential felony in order to stop the Constitutional function of government. I kid you not.
Here is Democrat Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York pulling the fire alarm so Democrats wouldn’t have to vote.
Democrats will do *anything* to shut down the government. pic.twitter.com/lk3yA0p5Hx
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 30, 2023
A Democrat Member of Congress just committed a felony by pulling the fire alarm to try to delay and stop a Congressional vote to fund the government.
— Rep. Elise Stefanik (@RepStefanik) September 30, 2023
These people think they are above the law, but I think Bowman is about to find out, as he so succinctly put it:
No one in this country is above the law – including former President Trump.
Being indicted for falsifying business records with hush money is only the beginning of being held accountable for his crimes. 🧵
— Congressman Jamaal Bowman (@RepBowman) March 30, 2023
There’s also this:
Jamaal Bowman was school principle at Cornerstone Academy for Social Action
Here’s how Cornerstone punished kids for pulling the fire alarm: pic.twitter.com/M24piVEA9k
— John Hasson (@SonofHas) September 30, 2023
Bowman’s office is spinning like crazy over this potentially felonious act. Claiming, alternately, that he thought the fire alarm was some kind of fancy door opener or that he pulled it unintentionally. Not sure how that works, but that’s his story.
Bowman tells reporters “I thought the alarm would open the door.”
— Juliegrace Brufke (@juliegraceb) September 30, 2023
Bowman’s office acknowledged he pulled the alarm, but suggested it was unintentional. https://t.co/7ry9zimuJz
— NBC News (@NBCNews) September 30, 2023
Bowman: I was just trying to get to my vote the door that's usually open wasn't open..I didn't mean to cause confusion. I didn't know it was going to trip the whole building. I thought it would help me open the door.
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) September 30, 2023
Republicans are justly outraged by this, particularly in light of the treatment and sentencing of the J6 political prisoners for far lesser crimes, many of them ginned up BS.
Newsy: Rep. Malliotakis (R-NY) is drafting a resolution to have Rep. Bowman expelled, her spox Natalie Baldassarre tells me.
Rep. Lisa McClain is also drafting a resolution to censure him, her office confirms.
Bowman’s office said alarm incident bc “confusion”/rushing to vote https://t.co/2CTjvkzx25
— Olivia Beavers (@Olivia_Beavers) September 30, 2023
This is the United States Congress, not a New York City high school. This action warrants expulsion & I’m introducing a resolution to do just that. https://t.co/rfnLDzFHmK
— Office of Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (@RepMalliotakis) September 30, 2023
Text of the resolution 👇 https://t.co/FlaARmjO7T pic.twitter.com/S8Nqfb7TDd
— Mica Soellner (@MicaSoellnerDC) September 30, 2023
We are talking breaking the law here, an act apparently performed with the goal of disrupting Constitutional congressional work. This is a Constitutional crisis because he intended to upend our Constitutional order and to topple our democracy. And stuff. Isn’t that how this works? I think so, according to the Democrats’ own rules, so this felony needs to be pursued and this man held accountable.
Needless to say, people have thoughts.
The doors can be clearly seen to be equipped with panic bars. Panic bars can always be operated to open doors from the inside for exit in an emergency. Congressmember Jamal Bowman committed a misdemeanor of putting in a false fire alarm and has compounded it by lying.
— Laurence (Larry) Boorstein (@LarryBoorstein) September 30, 2023
It’s a crime under DC law and arguably a felony if it’s an attempt to obstruct an official proceeding — see claims from J6 cases. https://t.co/g7szoEsCwG
— Claudia Tenney (@claudiatenney) September 30, 2023
Door knobs in Washington DC pic.twitter.com/fNZ9qIrSM5
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) September 30, 2023
Who among us hasn’t walked up to a fire alarm, put our hand on it and pulled it unintentionally?
— 🫃🏼💉🇺🇦Hollaria Briden, Esq. & Ally (@HollyBriden) September 30, 2023
PSA: especially to all the boys and girls who were students at Cornerstone Academy for Social Action because your principal may not have taught you. pic.twitter.com/bgXuEwTobm
— Rep. George Santos (@RepSantosNY03) September 30, 2023
Charge him. https://t.co/weTkPIL68v pic.twitter.com/nD2QNAw77K
— AG (@AGHamilton29) September 30, 2023
Bowman was a school principal he knew exactly what he was doing
— Ladie Jaded (@ladie_jaded) September 30, 2023
Are we to understand that Rep. Bowman has never had occasion to learn how the doors work in his over 2 years working in the House of Representatives? This is what we’re to believe?
— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) September 30, 2023
Unintentional? Even AOC and John Fetterman know how fire alarms work.
— Dan-The-Mansogynist (@dfeakins76) September 30, 2023
Rep Bowman telling reporters he thought the fire alarm would open the door is right up there with Hank Johnson asking if the Island of Guam would tip over if there were too many Marines on it
— The Chief🇺🇸 (@collins11_m) September 30, 2023
Good expel him. If I pulled a fire alarm in a U.S government building with no emergency I would be arrested so would any other American. Hold him to standard us civilians are held to.
— leeveyteeth (@leeveyteeth) September 30, 2023
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Of course they aren’t going to charge him.
That idiot Garland is going to give a press conference about how, because of his ridiculous lie about being ‘confused’, they couldn’t prove ‘intent’ to actually pull the fire alarm, and that ‘no reasonable prosecutor’ would pursue charges.
Some animals are more equal than others.
If he is seen as so cognitively deficient as to confuse a fire alarm pull with a door open button it only strengthens his case to continue being a Democrat officeholder.
Double especially black animals
I assume your question is rhetorical.
Stop reading my mind. He is black. They get a pass.
No, he’s a democrat which is why he’ll get a pass.
He’s black and a democrat. That’s like a royal flush in poker.
nailed it.
My plumber says a royal flush beats a full house…
My plumber says a royal flush beats a full house…
Or a full pipe?
My plumber says a royal flush beats a full house…
My plumber says a royal flush beats a full house…
Congrats. You just double-flushed.
Let’s not pretend that being a Dumb-o-crat “of color” doesn’t come with special privileges above the normal special treatment that is afforded to Dumb-o-crats. Skin pigmentation matters. Look at the indefensibly lenient sentences handed out in the black gang beating that killed a white Ohio teen (the culprits pleading guilty to assault, only), and, the “Black Lives Matter” arsonist whose burning of a business killed a man (the culprit receiving a ten-year sentence).
1) No consequences under the law or House rules to Bowman.
2) A reward for Bowman inside the Democrat caucus.
3) The House will order all cameras covering fire alarm pulls removed. Incidentally shortly thereafter this will become a standard Democrat tactic for as long as votes in the Capitol mean something.
4) Whichever Capitol Police officer who noted this and leaked this will be fired and persecuted. And no, that last word in the previous sentence was NOT a typo.
Subotai Bahadur
If a J6 protestor had “accidentally” pulled a fire alarm, they would be serving life in prison.
Assuming a DC cop didn’t see them doing it and just shot them dead on the spot.
Dems don’t get prosecuted in D.C.
Next!
On the few occasions they do get prosecuted they are either acquitted or sentenced to a short term probation in slam dunk cases like when the DOJ lawyer falsified FBI forms to a FISA judge.
William Jefferson laughs sourly at your short memory:
https://en.wikipedia.Org/wiki/William_Jefferson_(politician)
It’s sad that this blog still entertains that the rule of law exists at a federal level..
To answer your question: no. Democrat, and Negro privilege.
Put palm readers on fire alarms. and an audio prompt for them to acknowledge that they intend to trip the alarm.
McCarthy won’t really push for anything. He’ll make some statement about how it was a bad thing, and that J6ers were harshly treated. Then he’ll say something about principles and moving on and there will be no consequence. At least he won’t start crying like Boehner.
If would be a step in the right direction if a GOP Senator stepped up and criticized the blatant double standards with J6 protestors. Instead we had a GOP Senator praise Ashley Babitt’s murderer as a hero. No need to guess which team he and many of his GOP colleagues are on.
Like how he made a side Ukraine deal with the Democrats to pass the CR without telling the Republicans??….He is a POS. This is why MAGA is sick and tired of the lying Republicans who put Ukraine and illegals over us, EVERY SINGLE TIME.
Well, Donald Trump endorse McCarthy to be Speaker of the House, and last I checked Trump was MAGA.
But, but Trump!1!1!!!
September 30th!
Will the Democrats speak of this day in the same manner they speak of January 6th?
Awwww he was just fun in’ an’ 5#1+…
Bowman will face zero consequences for this felony crime to obstruct congress because of the Zero-eth amendment to the US Constitution: ‘No negro must submit to law enforcement if he doesn’t feel like it.’
“I thought it was April Fools!”
“Will Dem Rep. Jamaal Bowman get the J6 treatment for pulling fire alarm to disrupt congressional vote?”
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
As for the resolutions to expel, which need a 2/3 vote i.e. 60+ Dems to vote to expel:
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Among other things, in my first career as a professional journalist (when that meant anything), I spent 5 years in D.C., where I was a member of the Standing Committee of Correspondents and spent most of my time on Capitol Hill.
I knew every door, every corridor, every passageway. Bowman’s excuse is laughable and cheesy. Every door — no exceptions — of the office buildings on the House and Senate side, and in the Capitol, are guarded by the Capitol Police. No exeptions. There are underground subways between the Capitol and the office buildings.
Bowman claims that he mistook a fire alarm for a door opener. There are door openers for the handicapped, but they look nothing like fire alarms. He claims he was in a hurry. If that were true, he’d never have gone to an exit door; he’d have taken the subway, which takes a minute or two to walk between the Cannon (the closest office building) and the Capitol. By contast, exiting to the street and re-entering the Capitol through security would have taken much longer.
Nope, he pulled the alarm deliberately. It’s open and shut. Any media outlet with people on Capitol Hill knows it. So do any of the 50,000 people who work there every day. This is not obscure knowledge. It’s universal.
Will the media report this? It’s the easiest story. No, they won’t. The media are de facto Democratic operatives, and Bowman is black. It will vanish down the memory hole.
Then there is his removing and throwing the 3 emergency exit signs from the door, which shows intent and not merely a panicked reaction.
At best this was a temper tantrum, at worst he was attempting to interfere with legislative business.
He needs to go to jail. Preferably share a cell will a Jan 6er.
All I saw was a photo of him pulling the alarm. Where can I find other pictures? Thanks.
Breitbart ran a piece on this: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/30/exclusive-capitol-sources-jamaal-bowman-threw-signs-warning-door-was-emergency-only-on-floor-before-pulling-fire-alarm/
Thanks. Wow, he’s not only a liar, he’s a stupid liar. LOL
Now I understand his claim about “confusing signage” (this is the first time I have seen any signage at all, making his claim itself confusing).
The signs said “Emergency Exit Only, push until alarm sounds.” It appears he was confused about what he was supposed to “push” (the crash bar, dummy), but the “emergency” and “alarm” parts did register to his reptile brain, so he pulled the fire alarm.
Ironically, if he had understood the signage and followed its instructions, he would have set off an emergency alarm anyway. Though possibly not a building-wide one.
Thank you for your informative comment.
Agreed. Always nice to have more details about an article from commenters who posses the knowledge.
Actual first person experience.. really great…
There are relatively few subjects beyond the obvious where I can claim 100% certainty, but this is one of them. I reiterate: ANYONE with experience there KNOWS that his story is phony. To me, the relative lack of general media exposure is (as if I needed it) proof that journalism as I knew it and practiced it is dead.
I would also point out, athough it’s not needed, that he was a school administrator in a past career. If ANYONE knows about fire alarms, he does.
Correction: There are emergency doors. They’re not manned, but there’s a 30-second delay. You push the bar for 3 seconds and wait another 30 seconds, enough time for the Capitol Police to get there. I didn’t remember them because I never used one.
“It will vanish down the memory hole.”
I looked down there. Couldn’t see anything. Must’ve vanished.
“This is a Constitutional crisis because he intended to upend our Constitutional order and to topple our democracy…”
PLEASE stop calling us a democracy. Democracy is majority rules.
We are a democratically elected representative republic……if we can keep it.
Doubt me?
Recite the Pledge of Allegiance, if you still can.
You missed the sarc? He’s “quoting” dozens of Democrats about J6ers.
Exactly, and as I make clear in the same paragraph she’s quoting. FDS is real, and it’s hilarious. 😛
You’re funny.
Criticism of Rep. Bowman is racist.
what would be the outcry if MTG pulled the alarm?
What Bowman did is what black ‘Democrats’ now call “get into some good trouble”.
An opportunity for the DoJ to show impartiality and given the thumping of the DoJ reputation outside the DC area and blue enclaves they might be willing to so with the blessing of the d/prog. Think about it, jamming this guy up doesn’t impact the political balance of power in the HoR. Nor the prospects for another d/prog to be elected in his deep blue CD.
If the DC establishment decides this guy can be thrown to wolves it doesn’t really cost them anything and gives them a fig leaf of ‘even handed’ justice to hide behind for the excessive actions v 99% of the J6 defendants. Will they grab the opportunity? IMO probably about 70/30 against b/c they are that arrogant and short sighted.
That would be good logic but it would mean giving the Rs a win at the expense of a black man..
Yep. Wouldn’t surprise me if they threw a black man to the wolves. Firstly b/c black men are % wise less likely to vote at all and if they do vote more likely to vote for GoP candidates, when compared to black women not v overall population obviously. Big disparity between black men/black women in openness to supporting not d/prog candidates.
Secondly the replacement of ‘black’ by POC (people of color) is another indicator of the same thing. The d/prog mid range and beyond political bet is on dumping black voter priorities for those of ‘LatinX’ background. That’s why the d/prog establishment is all in on illegal immigrants to the recent very publicly voiced displeasure in black neighborhoods in Chicago, NYC and elsewhere who’s political leaders are.selling them out.
At least the Washington Post didn’t call Jamaal Bowman a “centrist” as they did Dianne Feinstein.
No one is above the law.
Except Democrats.
Too bad the Fire Department didn’t show up and drench him with a firehouse, with Capitol K-9 dogs snarling. MSNBC would have had a collective orgasm.
Remember, Bowman had the shouting argument with Comer over gun control a few months ago. Bowman is unhinged.
Hahaha..bwahahaha…sorry, the title of this post made me laugh
He has the “Get out of jail free” card also known as the “Race” card and will use it. Only a few of the gutless Rs will demand his removal from the House.
Removal from the House is meaningless. If you or I did this, we would be charged with a crime. Must be the same for this guy.
As I understand it criminal charges in this matter would require action by McCarthy. I wouldn’t hold my breath.
The analogy “you can’t shout fire in a crowded theater” was first used in the context of free speech in the 1918 trial of the socialist Eugene V. Debs. He was charged with violations of the Espionage Act of 1917.
Now it seems you can shout fire in a crowded theater.
Debs? No — U.S. v. Charles Schenck, the Secretary of the Socialist Party of America.
I think his cover story needs a little work.
This one may be better:
“The cat from next door came over, let itself in with a spare key in its paw and then jumped up and pulled the lever with its teeth and then it ate my objective computer number-crunching that I was going to deliver about how white boy is just awful. Then the cat spelled out a warning with its paw about snitching on it, so that’s why I made a different excuse at first.”
Honest.
What’s more believable, that he made a simple unintended error in pulling the fire alarm switch, or that the “parading” by so many of those who have been arrested for their January 6th activities was never intended as a criminal act?
Nope, didn’t happen that way. Scroll up to the link on my long posting provided by Fuzzy. Breitbrart nailed it. Read it, and you will see.
Will bowman get the treatment?
Short answer: No.
Long answer: Hell no
If forced to place a bet on what happens
Nothing would be my wager., maybe a stern letter but that it.
💣 Another Democrat act of sabotage: 🧨
D.C. pipe bomber signals to capitol police that false flag terror op is complete and cover is no longer needed:
https://time.com/5945312/fbi-pipe-bombs-washington-dc-capitol/
…just watch, I bet our boy Jamaal will be protected in the same way…
Of course he will. He’ll get the exact same treatment meted out to every other government employee who participated in the J6 “insurrection,” he’ll be excused.