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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.<\/div>\n
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But while the violence escalated, the call to deploy to\u00a0the Capitol<\/a>\u00a0did not come in time to help.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThey just stayed there the entire time, waiting,\u201d the former official familiar with the events told NBC News.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The officers, in blue, and the agents, in green, had waited in the same place this summer, just before they were called in to respond to protests outside the White House in the wake of George Floyd\u2019s death. In that instance, they were called to be deployed by then-Attorney General William Barr.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, however, they were standing by to be deployed at the discretion of DHS\u2019s Federal Protective Service, the officials told NBC News. FPS, which is responsible for protecting federal buildings and property, was one of a handful of federal agencies asked to be ready to respond to the upcoming protests, in coordination with the Capitol Police.<\/p>\n

FPS had asked CBP to have agents on standby on Monday, Jan. 4, but did not call them during the heat of the siege on the Capitol Wednesday. Some CBP agents were eventually deployed, but it was only after dusk and after the violence had largely subsided, the officials said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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