It looks like every department from national guard to FBI was ready to help and it all got deflected by Steven Sund / Capitol police. Wonder if that was planned or arrogance.
Or optics. Because republicans didn’t want Branch Covidians being lumped in with those pesky blacks people who object to being murdered in the street.
The full Washington Post account from 40 interviews with people in the Capitol building. Open in Incognito to bypass paywall, its a hell of a read.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-capitol-siege/2021/01/09/e3ad3274-5283-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html