The View’s Joy Behar Likens UC Davis Pepper Spraying Incident To Kent State
The controversial pepper spraying incident at UC Davis was a hot topic Monday on The View with Joy Behar comparing the police action to the Kent State shootings.
“A lot of people watching are too young to remember Kent State in this country, where the police shot a couple of students,” observed Behar. “It’s outrageous, this type of behavior cannot be tolerated by the police!”
Behar was alluding to the infamous killing of four students by the Ohio National Guard, targeting Vietnam War protesters in 1970.
“I’m sorry,” Whoopi Goldberg said. “There is no — there is nothing they could have been doing, short of physically scaring those police, to have that man go down and — they’re sitting there!”
Whoopi then got up and reenacted the campus police’s pepper spraying. “Just like this, down the thing, came back up and sprayed them again. There’s no excuse for that.”
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Barbara Walters said the chancellor had to take responsibility for the matter. “Should the president of the school resign? She says she won’t. I mean, the buck stops, it would seem with her.”
“Who gave them the order to do it?” demanded Sherri Shepherd. “I know nothing, so therefore knowing nothing, I can’t say anything,” Walters added. “It seems to me that the president is culpable.”
“You’re going to get me suspended,” Goldberg jokingly lamented.
“We’re going to get pepper sprayed!” exclaimed Elisabeth Hasselbeck.
Watch the panelists discuss the UC Davis pepper spraying controversy below via ABC:
