Armed DHS agents were on standby near Capitol riot but weren't deployed till too late

[sabra]

Source: NBC News

WASHINGTON — As a violent mob of Trump supporters outnumbered Capitol Police and stormed inside the Capitol on Wednesday, approximately 50 uniformed, armed DHS personnel stood inside a federal building just down the street waiting on a call to be deployed, according to two current Department of Homeland Security officials and one former DHS official.

But while the violence escalated, the call to deploy to the Capitol did not come in time to help.

“They just stayed there the entire time, waiting,” the former official familiar with the events told NBC News.

The roughly 50 DHS personnel, all from various parts of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, were waiting in a staging area inside the Ronald Reagan Building, just 13 blocks down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/armed-dhs-agents-were-standby-near-capitol-riot-weren-t-n1253918?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

[TomCADem]

1. Now, if There Were Progressive Activists...

...the DHS would have been plucking them off the street and stuffing them into vans.

[soothsayer]

2. "You didn't say Simon"

[RKP5637]

3. I hope to hell there are serious repercussions for this, and at the TOP LEVEL!!!!

[R Merm]

4. They were there to protect the rump protestors not the Capitol or Congress.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is his S.A.

[orangecrush]

8. THIS

[Ford_Prefect]

5. "Stand Down and Stand By" takes on a whole new meaning now, doesn't it?

[sinkingfeeling]

6. Wonder why Chad Wolf resigned?

[mpcamb]

7. Not sure that DHS could be trusted as far as you could throw a battalion of them.