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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSarah Beckstrom, WV National Guard shooting victim, is not expected to survive.
I apologize that I can only find this information on Facebook.
Sarah Beckstrom, just twenty years old, was ambushed alongside twenty four year old Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe of the West Virginia National Guard. Both were shot in Washington, D.C. only 800 yards from the White House. Wolfe remains in critical condition.
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Beckstroms father said the family is preparing for the worst and that they are praying for a miracle. The severity of both soldiers injuries continues to shape how charges will proceed in federal court.
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=122207384642048273&set=a.122133686960048273
RandySF
(80,289 posts)COL Mustard
(7,878 posts)Now he can crack down on all sorts of people.
Cha
(316,096 posts)Volaris
(11,292 posts)If, AT ANY POINT, he had done as the Constitution and the other Branches ORDERED him to do, this wouldn't have happened.
Cha
(316,096 posts)Neo Nazis he appointed.
callous taoboy
(4,763 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(14,124 posts)milestogo
(22,290 posts)She died for no reason.
WhiskeyGrinder
(26,061 posts)https://archive.ph/lVS29
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Both had been deployed to Washington since August, when President Trump ordered troops to the capital as part of what his administration described as a crackdown on crime.
All we need right now are prayers for my son, a man at Sergeant Wolfes family home told a reporter. He declined to speak more.
Specialist Beckstroms father said his daughter was unlikely to recover. Im holding her hand right now, Gary Beckstrom said when reached by phone. She has a mortal wound. Its not going to be a recovery. He declined to speak further.
Staph
(6,446 posts)The Facebook post was the first place I saw the report, and I wanted to get the word out fast. And I don't have a subscription to the New York Times!
RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
(1,603 posts)Botany
(76,050 posts)There was zero need for her or any National Guard Members to be there or anyplace else and
besides it was illegal too. "Posse comitatus" has two meanings: the Posse Comitatus Act, a U.S. law that prohibits the use of federal military for domestic law enforcement unless authorized by Congress, and the historical legal concept of "the power of the county", which is the authority of a sheriff to call citizens for assistance.
She should have been @ home in West Virginia for the Holidays not in Washington D.C. where
some kind of Jack Wagon saw her and her uniform as something to lash out @ to make the
devils in his brain to be quiet.
Is Trump so sick that he will go to her funeral?
Both of the W.V. Guardsmen had been sworn in less than 24 hours before they were shot.
https://www.newsweek.com/dc-national-guard-shooting-sarah-beckstrom-mortal-wound-11122860
Congress needs to do its job and remove the madman in power now.
Emile
(39,628 posts)This was all his fault!