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.
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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. pic.twitter.com/ZfrDHw7zMB— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) June 10, 2025
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 Afghanistan.” pic.twitter.com/KHSoM0MPR0
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) June 10, 2025
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.”