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We’ve trained our teams to act quickly when they feel threatened and to retreat quickly and without hesitation – whether the threat be proximity to the unmasked during a pandemic or a pipe bomb.

Kohl said that although the truck was investigated because of the suspected or “perceived pipe bombs,” Coffman was not charged in relation to those possible devices but with allegedly possessing the other weapons and destructive devices.

Sund said he now suspects that the pipe bombs were an intentional effort to draw officers away from the Capitol perimeter.

They have seized pipe bombs and Molotov cocktails and arrested at least six people on illegal firearms charges, including one Maryland man who was captured in the visitors’ center of the Capitol.

Federal agents are still trying to determine if that vehicle and its contents are connected to the suspected pipe bombs found earlier, the people said.

Within hours, four blast bombs and a pipe bomb packed with nails had been launched at officers.

“Of course, a pipe bomb could have that effect as well,” he added.