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- The departing chief of the Capitol Police says he called for backup six times before and during Wednesday's attack at the US Capitol but was kept waiting.
- Chief Steven Sund told The Washington Post he unsuccessfully asked the Senate and House sergeants at arms multiple times for permission to call the National Guard.
- Sund said that he asked the Pentagon for help after the violence started but that Lt. Gen. Walter E. Piatt, the director of the US Army Staff, declined.
- The Guard eventually deployed at 3:10 p.m. and arrived at 5:40 p.m., The Post said, after the violence had mostly ceased.
- Sund told The Post: "If we would have had the National Guard we could have held them at bay longer."
- https://www.businessinsider.com/capitol-police-chief-sund-asked-reinforcements-6-times-wapo-2021-1
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