The disinformers of ABC News’s The View were back at it again during Tuesday’s show as they falsely insisted that the riots in Los Angeles were “peaceful for days,” “very, very orderly,” and it was Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) who brought the “crisis” and "occupied" the city like an invading enemy. One co-host even tried to suggest that a few law enforcement officers getting attacked in the streets wasn’t that big of a deal, while also claiming another Kent State “will happen.”
ABC News moderator Whoopi Goldberg opened the discussion by lamenting that people were seeing videos of the violence on social media and were “getting a much different view of what's going on in L.A. depending on where they're watching this play out, because it's quite different when you're talking to people in L.A. And very different than what you're seeing on the news.”
Her source of facts and unbiased information? Her family, who told her the riots were “peaceful for days”:
JOY BEHAR: Have you spoken to people in L.A.?
GOLDBERG: My whole family is in L.A.
BEHAR: What did they say?
GOLDBERG: They saying, you know, people are mad. It's been peaceful for days and then suddenly these guys showed up and flipped everybody out. So, that's what my family is saying.
“I heard the same thing,” co-host Sunny Hostin announced, backing up Goldberg. Claiming she “spoke to about five people that live in L.A., that work in L.A.,” she insisted that “these protests were very, very orderly, they weren't violent, and they occurred in about a four-block radius.”
According to Hostin, “the fact of the matter” was that “there is no crisis in Los Angeles that ICE did not cause.” “And we now know that Stephen Miller ordered -- his order that they arrest 3,000 people a day, that ICE arrests 3,000 people a day led to this,” she added.
Using her latest set of scary buzzwords designed to fear monger, Hostin warned that “Trump is militarizing that state as a test run, as a test run to make sure that he can do it in places like New York, that he can do it in other sanctuary cities.”
Seemingly building off of Hostin’s warning, co-host Joy Behar predicted that another Kent State situation “will happen”:
I've seen this, you know, in my lifetime. 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 with what they're doing because that's the next thing that will happen.
After comparing the National Guard deployment to Afghanistan, co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin did call out how they “can't deny the imagery that you're seeing. There are cars being lit on fire. There are police officers being attacked. There are guardsmen being attacks.”
Behar responded by seemingly trying to suggest that a relatively small number of them getting injured was fine and it was their own fault:
FARAH GRIFFIN: You can't deny the imagery that you're seeing. There are cars being lit on fire. There are police officers being attacked. There are guardsmen being attacks.
BEHAR: How many though?! I mean, compared to –
FARAH GRIFFIN [Interrupts]: To be honest, I don't really care if you're hurting police officers, if you’re damaging property, that you should get your day in court for it.
BEHAR: But nothing was happen like that until they sent the National Guard in.
Goldberg closed out the segment with a ridiculous pivot, kvetching that the National Guard wasn’t called in when Eagles fans were rioting in celebration of the winning the Super Bowl.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
June 10, 2024
11:02:45 a.m. Eastern(…)
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Are people getting a much different view of what's going on in L.A. depending on where they're watching this play out, because it's quite different when you're talking to people in L.A.
SUNNY HOSTIN: Yeah.
GOLDBERG: And very different than what you're seeing on the news.
JOY BEHAR: Have you spoken to people in L.A.?
GOLDBERG: My whole family is in L.A.
BEHAR: What did they say?
GOLDBERG: They saying, you know, people are mad. It's been peaceful for days and then suddenly these guys showed up and flipped everybody out. So, that's what my family is saying.
HOSTIN: I heard the same thing. I spoke to about five people that live in L.A., that work in L.A. And they said that these protests were very, very orderly, they weren't violent, and they occurred in about a four-block radius. And we all know how large L.A. is. And so, in my view, there is no crisis in Los Angeles that ICE did not cause. That is the fact of the matter. Right?
[Applause]
BEHAR: Looks like that.
HOSTIN: And we now know that Stephen Miller ordered -- his order that they arrest 3,000 people a day, that ICE arrests 3,000 people a day led to this.
And what I will also say is, you know, California is the largest economy in the United States, has the largest economy, and it has sort of the -- you know, it's the largest state and has a GDP that's larger than many countries. And so, I think we have to look at what's happening from a bird's eye perspective, and look at the “why.”
Trump is militarizing that state as a test run, as a test run to make sure that he can do it in places like New York, that he can do it in other sanctuary cities. And so, there is a plan to this, in my view. And I really think that there's no question that the LAPD, that has 9,000 police officers, could have handled this quite well instead of sending in 4,700 –
[Crosstalk]
BEHAR: I think that's very astute what you said.
(…)
11:05:18 a.m. Eastern
BEHAR: I've seen this, you know, in my lifetime. 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 with what they're doing because that's the next thing that will happen.
(…)
11:06:20 a.m. Eastern
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: You can't deny the imagery that you're seeing. There are cars being lit on fire. There are police officers being attacked. There are guardsmen being attacks.
BEHAR: How many though?! I mean, compared to –
FARAH GRIFFIN: To be honest, I don't really care if you're hurting police officers, if you’re damaging property, that you should get your day in court for it.
BEHAR: But nothing was happen like that until they sent the National Guard in.
FARAH GRIFFIN: That's where it's on the governor to say, let's make this the biggest peaceful protest in history; but the second it gets violent, the governor needs to crackdown and show that he’s capable of leading.
(…)
