Bowman Faces a Misdemeanor for Pulling Capitol Fire Alarm Before Spending Vote
But I thought insurrectionists had everything thrown at them?
The D.C. attorney general charged socialist Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) with a misdemeanor for pulling a fire alarm at the Capitol leading up to a vote on a spending bill.
Bowman’s arraignment takes place on Thursday morning:
Bowman violated Code of the District of Columbia: § 22–1319. False alarms and false reports; hoax weapons:
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to willfully or knowingly give a false alarm of fire within the District of Columbia, and any person or persons violating the provisions of this subsection shall, upon conviction, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine not more than the amount set forth in § 22-3571.01 or by imprisonment for not more than 6 months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Prosecutions for violation of the provisions of this subsection shall be on information filed in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia by the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia.
The pictures and video show that Bowman was not rushing to vote. In fact, his excuses make him look like a fool.
The pictures also indicate that Bowman deliberately tried to obstruct an official Congressional proceeding.
Obstructing Congressional or Administrative Proceedings (18 U.S.C. 1505)
Section 1505 outlaws obstructing congressional or federal administrative proceedings, a crime punishable by imprisonment not more than five years (not more than eight years if the offense involves domestic or international terrorism). The crime has three essential elements. First, there must be a proceeding pending before a department or agency of the United States. Second, the defendant must be aware of the pending proceeding. Third, the defendant must have intentionally endeavored corruptly to influence, obstruct or impede the pending proceeding. Section 1505 offenses are not RICO or money laundering predicate offenses. Conspiracy to obstruct administrative or congressional proceedings may be prosecuted under 18 U.S.C. 371, and the general aiding and abetting, accessory after the fact, and misprision statutes are likely to apply with equal force in the case of obstruction of an administrative or congressional proceeding.
Why aren’t they treating him like those evil and awful January 6th insurrectionists!?
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What! No “Insurrection” arrest and prison time?
Not if everyone is going to be an antiTrumper. Realistically he’s going to win the nomination, like him or not. No one else is close, maybe it’ll change but I doubt it.
Staying home is going to get the country more of pedo joe, governor hair gel of cali and other assorted Nazi’s.
Yup…need to vote regardless. And while hope is not a strategy, I do expect that voting “anomalies” have been remedied so people can semi trust their ballot being counted and the election is not massively stolen again…by the same party (every time).
You have more faith in the electoral system and remedies than I do. However, voting needs to be tried at least once more before giving up on electoral politics and returning to feudal measures.
Subotai Bahadur
Actually I don’t. Especially having come from 1-Day in-person paper ballot or lever machines and knowing who won or lost by 10:00pm. I refuse to allow the Swamp to achieve their objective of demoralizing We The Good People to give up our duty to cast our vote for the person we deem fit for office.
I’m voting for who I want and they can’t/wonton stop me.
Mmmmmm…wontons!
Hehe…word sub…but yeah. The real question is wonton soup with or without noodles? Decisions.
The GOPe RNC led by Ms. Romney has done NOTHING to ensure the security and integrity of the next election. It’s almost like they don’t care.
Would he not be covered by Congressional immunity for only a misdemeanor charge? (Article 1, Section 6)
Researching this myself, apparently the Supreme Court has interpreted the exception to apply to all criminal offenses. So he can indeed be arrested for this offense regardless of how it’s classified/
I’m surprised a black democrat is even being charged at all! 18 USC 1505 must only apply to Trump supporters,
Bowman should be ordered to wear a dunce cap and sit in the corner until election day.
And have his head shaved.
I seem to recall reading stories of people being convicted and serving 20+years for interfering with congressional proceedings.
Black privilege
America is a joke’s
By President he should have been locked in the gulag 5 minutes after it happened and not see a judge for another 2 years.
That should read by precedent, stupid speech to text
Bowman is a documented racist who blames all his problems in life on white people.
Woke trash.
Yet there he is as a Representative in Congress. (Tiniest of violins for Jamaal the Socialist)
Well … if you had an IQ of 77 you would probably try to blame white people, too. Blaming whitey is Bowman operating at the absolute limit of his intellect.
Come on, now. It’s (D)ifferent when they (D)o it…
Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) mistook the Fire Alarm for the Hamas “From the River to the Sea” Alarm.
I suspect they will let him keep the fire alarm and Wray and Garland themselves present it at an wards party.
Want to see him treated the same as a J6 protester? It’s very simple:
Arrest him, hold him and sit on his case for a few years, and when he finally has his trial, convict him of the misdemeanor and sentence him to 15-20 years in a maximum security federal prison for it.
Maybe tack on another decade or two if he has unpaid parking tickets.
Nothing about obstructing an official proceeding – which was his only intent?? He should be sitting in solitary for a year, being beaten by guards, and then be railroaded into a 5 year prison sentence.
$1,000 fine?? The costs of his illegal fire alarm (to obstruct Congress) must have been upwards of $30,000, all added up, not to mention the risk he put people at of being trampled by the cowards (of which there are oh so many in Washington), time costs of the fire department, police department, Congress, itself … and THEn, there should be a fine on top of those costs that has to be large enough.
Hell … I got stopped for not having my inspection up to date and received two tickets for it – the inspection and the BS emissions junk. The fines were a total of $75 but the fees and county costs and all made the whole thing add up to $500. And that was just for an overdue inspection on a car that was in fine order. Illegally pulling a fire alarm in order to stop the Congress from operating …
I hope someone just puts some gympie-gympie on Bowman’s toilet seat. Heck. the whole squad could use that.
Bowman is a more evolved black. Most brothers set fire to buildings.
Bad precedent. The standard being set is $1K fine and no time for pulling a fire alarm which evacuated the building and delays Congressional voting/proceedings. This is not gonna be the last time it happens when such a low penalty is imposed for such a high payoff.
It did not delay congressional voting / proceedings. It had no effect whatsoever on congress. Nor could he reasonably have expected it to have any effect. Why would it?
And what payoff? We don’t know what he got out of it, ,or what he intended to get out of it.
As I recall the building was evacuated until the building was cleared. The HoR was in session at the time. Debate prior to voting is just as much a part of proceedings as the vote.
We don’t have to search for his reasoning. All we need is to show:
1. Pulled alarm
2. Knew what that would do (dude was a HS Principal and part of his duties is fire protection/response. Any argument that an Adult much one with specific training about fire alarms doesn’t know what follows is absurd.
Dude had to know a fire alarm triggers everyone getting out of the building, a head count, first responders checking for left behind occupants and locating/suppressing any fire or ensuring no fire is present. That means the HoR couldn’t attend to its proceedings while all that crap went on. Get real.
The Cannon building was evacuated. It had no effect at all on the Capitol. The House vote continued as normal, and nobody there even knew what was happening over in Cannon.
Not only could it, it did. That is not speculation, it’s an indisputable fact. That he stupidly intended for it not to is pure speculation, and extremely unlikely. (Not that he’s stupid, but that he was stupid in this specific way.)
It was not in the Capitol.
Where did that idea come from? The pictures certainly do not indicate any such thing. There is nothing in any of the pictures to indicate what was going through what passes for his mind.
None of us know what he was trying to do, but how can you imagine he was trying to disrupt congressional proceedings by setting off a fire alarm in a different building? The fact is that the alarm had no effect whatsoever on congressional proceedings. So to attribute such a motive to him one would have to suppose that he imagined it would disrupt them and was surprised when it didn’t. That’s a huge leap and a lot of supposing. On what basis should we suppose it?
Ah, where would we be without projection and inference, Milhouse? 😉 Imagine if your standard of proof were applied to Trump. The MSM would be neutered. 😉
You are the one projecting and inferring, and your “inference” is actually pure speculation and fantasy, without even one tiny shred of evidence.
I have no idea what he intended, and neither do you. Only he knows what he was thinking. But the idea that he intended for it somehow to stop the vote in congress is very low on the list of possible explanations. It makes almost as little sense as his own “explanation”.
“There is nothing in any of the pictures to indicate what was going through what passes for his mind.”
There sure is now.
And it shows EXACTLY what REASONABLE people fully expected.
No, there isn’t. The video (which I saw right after it happened) shows what he did, which was never in dispute. It sheds no light on why he did it.
I thought stopping a sanctioned Congress session is a year in solitary and 3 years without a trial?
But he DIDN’T stop any session, what he did couldn’t have stopped any session, and there’s no reason to suppose he even thought it could.
It is clear he would not get much of anything but a slap on the wrist compared to the J6 people since he was a Dem Congressman. There is a clear Two Tier Justice System existing in this country and it helps the Dems.
Attempted murder by stampede should be more than a misdemeanor!
What stampede? There was none, and there was no reason to expect one.