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The charge will be withdrawn after a three month probation period if the congressman provides a formal apology and pays a $1,000 fine.

The alarm forced the evacuation of a House office building for over an hour. The New York lawmaker has acknowledged pulling the alarm and said it was a mistake. He was in a rush to go to vote, tried to go through a door that was unexpectedly closed and wrongly thought pulling the fire alarm lever would help him open it, he said.

Bowman told police he didn’t mean to pull the alarm or disrupt any congressional proceeding, according to court documents.

Bowman told police he didn’t mean to pull the alarm or disrupt any congressional proceeding, according to court documents.

Local election offices have been understaffed for years. But the 2020 election became a tipping point, with all the pandemic-related problems before the presidential election and the hostility and death

Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman says he plans to pay a fine after being charged with a misdemeanor for triggering a fire alarm as lawmakers scrambled to pass a funding bill before a government shutdown deadline in September.

The congressman from New York set off the alarm in the Cannon House Office Building last month as Democrats were stalling for time to read a spending bill.

The alarm forced the evacuation of a House office building for over an hour. The New York lawmaker has acknowledged pulling the alarm and said it was a mistake. He was in a rush to go to vote, tried to go through a door that was unexpectedly closed and wrongly thought pulling the fire alarm lever would help him open it, he said.

Local election offices have been understaffed for years. But the 2020 election became a tipping point, with all the pandemic-related problems before the presidential election and the hostility and death

Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman says he plans to pay a fine after being charged with a misdemeanor for triggering a fire alarm as lawmakers scrambled to pass a funding bill before a government shutdown deadline in September.