"Sometimes Kids Get Killed": Joy Behar Predicts Another Kent State As National Guard Patrols L.A.

Joy Behar predicted on Tuesday that President Donald Trump�s decision to
deploy the National Guard to Los Angeles was likely to result another tragedy
like the one that played out at Ohio�s Kent State University in May of 1970.

Behar made the comments during a regular broadcast of ABC�s �The View,� as
she and her cohosts continued to complain about Trump and claim that the
violent riots � where federal agents had been targeted and property had been
destroyed � were peaceful and �orderly� until the National Guard arrived.

Whoopi Goldberg took the lead, claiming that videos of the violence were
misleading because some news sources were not showing the peaceful parts of
the protests. �It�s quite different when you�re talking to people in L.A.,�
she said, adding that the riots had been �peaceful for days.�

�There is no crisis in Los Angeles that ICE did not cause. That�s the fact of
the matter,� Sunny Hostin chimed in, saying the protests were �very, very
orderly� and claiming that if immigration authorities had not showed up to
enforce federal immigration law, there would be no problem.

Using the latest liberal buzzwords meant to stir up fear and hate,
Hostin warns that Trump is �militarizing� the state of California
as a �test run� for cracking down on other sanctuary cities.
�There is a plan,� she ominously fearmongers.
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Hostin followed that by restating her point from the day before � that Trump
was �militarizing� the National Guard � and claiming that Trump was moving
ahead with cracking down on Los Angeles because he wanted a �test run� for
going after other �sanctuary cities.�

It was then that Behar invoked the memory of Kent State, saying that bringing
in the National Guard reminded her of the situation that had played out there
in 1970 when anti-war (Vietnam) protesters had effectively cornered the
National Guard troops who were brought in by then-Governor James Rhodes.
Several of the National Guardsmen fired their weapons, killing four and
wounding nine. A 1974 criminal trial against eight National Guardsmen was
dismissed by District Judge Frank Battisti mid-trial after he said that the
prosecution�s case was so weak that the defense need not present its case at
all.

�You know, and sometimes kids get killed when this happens. In my day, it was
Kent State and they killed four kids, American students, and nine were
injured very severely in those days, and I think that they�ve got to be very
careful what they�re doing because that�s the next thing that will happen,�
Behar said.

Faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin compares the National Guard
in L.A. to U.S. troops in Afghanistan. �I have a major issue with
the National Guard going in and now the U.S. Marines� [its]
significantly more U.S. forces than we had in the winddown of
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Alyssa Farah Griffin argued that bringing in the National Guard and the
Marines � even after federal agents and local law enforcement had been
clearly harassed and targeted with projectiles � was excessive because there
were more deployed to Los Angeles than during the �wind-down of Afghanistan.�