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

On Jun 11, 2025 at 1:30:47 AM PDT, "Ubiquitous" <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

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

And here's another doing it: "Stop enforcing the law because it upsets the
criminals."

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 I'd say it's amazing that I never knew the outcome of that trial--
that it was such a clear-cut case of self-defense that the judge granted
summary judgment in favor of the defendants mid-trial, but given the leftist
infection of the education system, it's no surprise that my teachers left that
bit out when discussing the incident.