Slain National Guard Victim Was Frustrated by D.C. Deployment
‘POINTLESS’
Sarah Beckstrom’s longtime boyfriend told CNN that she felt her deployment to the nation’s capital was “pointless.”
Catherine Bouris Reporter

Updated Nov. 29 2025 2:51AM EST

https://www.thedailybeast.com/slain-national-guard-member-sarah-beckstrom-was-frustrated-by-dc-deployment/

“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?” CNN correspondent Gabe Cohen asked ( Adam Carr, who dated Beckstrom for six years before breaking up last month ).

“It was mixed,” he explained. “She got deputized in there, and they gave them no rights to do anything.”

He continued, “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—they told them to call the cops.”

“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.’”