Capitol Police requested DC Nat'l Guard assistance prior to riots but it was denied

According to Fox News, the FBI visited known Trump extremists and urged them not to attend the Capitol protest in Washington, D.C. They along with the NYFD warned them of possible riots, but the warning was as useful as teaching a catfish to shave.

Steven Sund was the U.S. Capitol Police chief during the deadly riots last Wednesday, but he has since resigned. Prior to the protests and riots he reportedly asked his supervisors for permission to request the D.C. National Guard to be on standby in case the protests escalated. 

Sund's request was denied. He revealed this in an interview with the Democratic newspaper The Washington Post.

"If we would have had the National Guard we could have held them at bay longer, until more officers from our partner agencies could arrive," Sund said, and described how the riots of January 6th might have turned out differently.

The Washington Post reports that on the Monday before the riot, Sund asked House and Senate security officials for permission to request the Guard be placed on standby in case he needed hasty backup.

But the House Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving argued that he was uncomfortable with the "optics" of such a move. [It is unknown Irving's comfort level with the "optics" of the riots.]
 

Senate Sergeant at Arms Michael Stenger told Sund that he should informally reach out to his contacts at the Guard and ask them to "lean forward" and be on alert, he told the outlet.

Sund followed Stenger’s advice and called the head of the D.C. National Guard that night, who allegedly told him he believed he could get 125 personnel to the scene quickly if needed. 

The police chief then briefed Irving and Stenger on that information Tuesday and Stenger said the backup – which also included the Metropolitan Police Department offering to potentially lend a hand -- seemed sufficient, according to Sund’s interview with the soft-news, hard-Left Washington Post.

Since the cluster-fritz of a riot went down, Irving and Stenger also resigned from their posts and are salting fries and burgers at McDonald's.

The D.C. National Guard finally arrived when the coast was fairly clear at 5:40 p.m., or 1740 for you ex-military or European folks. By that time, four people had died, security was breached, and AOC was having a cow.

Pentagon officials said last week that Capitol Police never requested D.C. National Guard backup before Wednesday and later made an urgent request as the pro-Trump mob was about to breach the Capitol building, the newspaper adds.

"We rely on Capitol Police and federal law enforcement to provide an assessment of the situation," Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said. "And based on that assessment that they had, they believed they had sufficient personnel and did not make a request."

And these are the folks who protect our leaders.

Sund told former newspaper The Washington Post, that now he believes the suspected pipe bombs found in D.C. the same day as the breach, were deliberately placed as a way to draw police away from the Capitol building, and it worked like chum in a swimming pool of hungry sharks.

"As soon as they hit the fence line, the fight was on," Sund told the newspaper. "Violent confrontations from the start. They came with riot helmets, gas masks, shields, pepper spray, fireworks, climbing gear -- climbing gear! -- explosives, metal pipes, baseball bats. I have never seen anything like it in 30 years of events in Washington."

In other words, they learned from Antifa and BLM, and honestly, my first thought when I heard the news about the rioting was that it was those two groups of anarchists doing the breach. I was wrong, although some of the rioters may have been from the left.

The Capitol Police has since been facing well-earned, bipartisan criticism for its mishandling of the riots.

But to their credit, the USCP was able to escort 99 Senators, Vice President Pence, journalists [it's unknown whether Jim Acosta was among the so-called journalists, but if he had been, watch out rioter--he would have taken yiz all on] out of the Senate Chamber to safety before it all went downhill.

However, lawmakers are frustrated that they haven’t been given a full explanation as to why the situation became as dire as it did.

Perhaps Jim Acosta can fill us in on the scoop.

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