But former U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund told IG investigators that when he was making an "urgent request" for the National Guard as his officers were being "overrun" and "fighting for their lives" when the Capitol building was being taken over, the representative from the office of then-Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy told him that he did not "like the optics of National Guard standing in a line with the Capitol in the background."
GOP questions watchdog's report on National Guard response to Jan. 6
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Mr. Sund claimed that he was denied National Guard troops for hours during the attack.
'I'm a little p----- off': Former Capitol Police chief Sund says Jan. 6 was 'cover-up'
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