Rep. Bowman charged with pulling fire alarm in House office building when there wasn’t an emergency

Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York has been charged by the DC attorney general with triggering a fire alarm in a House office building when there was not an emergency.

Bowman has been summoned to appear in DC Superior Court 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, when the congressman will be booked, fingerprinted and processed.

The congressman said following the incident late last month that it had been an accident.

“I was trying to get to a door. I thought the alarm would open the door, and I pulled the fire alarm to open the door by accident,” Bowman said at the time.

“I was just trying to get to my vote and the door that’s usually open wasn’t open, it was closed,” Bowman added.

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