Interviews with those close to slain West Virginia National Guard Specialist Sarah Beckstrom revealed her thoughts about deployment to Washington, D.C.
“She wanted to make the difference.”
(Video Credit: CNN)
Details were only just emerging Wednesday about the attack on Beckstrom and West Virginia Air National Guard Andrew Wolfe when leftists and talking heads on corporate media were already making the case that the tragedy would not have taken place had President Donald Trump not called the guard to the nation’s capital to help tackle rampant crime.
No matter the narrative being spun, the victim’s own former boyfriend of six years attested to how Beckstrom “was happy” about being in D.C. and even stayed when given the option to return home sooner.
“Did she believe in the mission of being there? Did she think it was important, or did she think they didn’t belong there, the West Virginia National Guard?” asked CNN’s Gabe Cohen of Adam Carr, who’d indicated that he and Beckstrom had broken up the month prior but had remained on good terms.
“It was mixed. She got deputized in there, and they gave them no rights to do anything,” he explained of her distaste for being unable to act. “She was like, ‘People spit towards us, cuss at us, throw things at us, and we can’t do nothing.’ She couldn’t detain nobody. She couldn’t stop them from doing wrong. It was like … they told them to call the cops.”
However, when it came to the mission, Carr expressed, “She wanted to make the difference. She wanted to extremely, she was happy with it. And she just was also like, ‘Why am I here if I can’t do nothing?’ where they limited them so much. She’s like, ‘It’s pointless.’ She’s like, ‘I get why we’re here. Crime is bad, but it’s pointless if we can’t do anything.'”
The ex-boyfriend had also spoken with NBC News and detailed Beckstrom’s goal to use her service to “get her foot in the door for a career in the FBI and help her in the long run.”
Referring to her as “one of the most forgiving people,” he offered, “She doesn’t even have to know you and she’ll do anything for you.”
He’d also made clear that Beckstrom had had a change of heart about her time in the nation’s capital where she’d enjoyed visiting historic attractions, remarking how she’d initially “cried about” the deployment believing she would feel lonely away from home. As it happened, she was said to have come to enjoy the deployment and was nicknamed “Becky” by her peers.
Similar to her son’s commentary, Carr’s mother, Eva Carr, described the “heart of gold” of Beckstrom who was “like a daughter” to her and had spent time prior to the deployment working at a community health center helping individuals with substance abuse disorders and mental illness.
“She was the sweetest girl. She was hard not to love. You loved her the minute you met her,” she’d told NBC News.
It had been announced by the president on Thanksgiving that Beckstrom had succumbed to her wounds while Wolfe remained in critical condition and their suspected attacker faced a first degree murder charge.
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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