The Ohio National Guard is taking on a police mission in Washington, D.C., that brings back one of the worst memories in state history.

Gov. Mike DeWine has ordered 150 military police from the state National Guard to deploy to Washington as part of President Trump’s takeover of the D.C. police force.

Untrained Ohio National Guard troops, called upon to police anti-war protests at Kent State University in 1970, shot and killed 4 on the campus, in what should be a permanent lesson on the misuse of military power.

Property damage on the campus made calling in the Ohio National Guard to protect a state asset a legitimate use of the state resource.

There is no legitimate reason for the taxpayers of Ohio to subsidize law enforcement in Washington, D.C., when violent criminal incidents in ou

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