New York Democrat Rep. Jamaal Bowman pled guilty to a single misdemeanor Thursday after he appeared to obstruct a federal proceeding by pulling a fire alarm in a Capitol office building. The disruption forced the occupants to evacuate for 90 minutes as lawmakers scrambled to avoid a government shutdown in September.

Bowman, a far-left “squad” member who smeared demonstrators at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as “violent insurrectionists” whose “terrorist attack” warranted a federal crackdown, will pay a $1,000 fine and serve three months of probation. The fire alarm charge will then be “dismissed from his record under an agreement with prosecutors,” according to the Associated Press.

[The judge also required Bowman to write a letter of apology to the fire department or face revocation of his probation and a six-month jail sentence. House Republican Byron Donalds scoffed at that requirement, and wondered why the courts were treating Bowman any differently than they treated the non-violent J6 intruders at the Capitol. The better analogy is why the pro-Hamas occupiers of the Cannon Building didn’t get the J6 treatment. .– Ed]