Sarah Beckstrom, one of the national guard troops shot in Washington DC on Wednesday, has died, Donald Trump said on Thursday.
Beckstrom, 20, was one of two members of the national guards shot near the White House in a targeted attack. The other member, Andrew Wolfe, 24, is still fighting for his life, according to the president.
Beckstrom’s father had told the New York Times in a phone call earlier in the day that his daughter was unlikely to recover. “I’m holding her hand right now,” Gary Beckstrom said. “She has a mortal wound. It’s not going to be a recovery.”
Both Beckstrom and Wolfe belonged to the West Virginia National Guard, which deployed hundreds of troops to Washington as part of Trump’s crime-fighting mission in the capital.
She wouldn’t have died if she’d had the courage to refuse illegal orders.
Womp womp.
Which orders were illegal in this case?
Judge rules Trump’s DC National Guard deployment was illegal - POLITICO https://share.google/drgPRPfbvJQwEthBs
Is it your position that she was blissfully clueless of the fact that she was being sent to intimidate & terrorize her fellow citizens?
If she was a decent person, she’d be alive today.
Good riddance.
I was curious whether they were actually doing anything illegal. National guard can’t actually do anything stateside besides disaster relief, so when they’re activated for “unrest” they’re just there to look scary or whatever. They literally don’t do shit.
Another actually helpful lemming pointed out the deployment itself was illegal, but that wasn’t even clear until the ruling because Trump literally is their commander. Him deploying other states’ guards on title 10 orders is blatantly illegal, DC wasn’t as clear cut.