Michael Issacson, 29, is a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, part of the public City University of New York system. He is pictured wearing an antifa shirt
A New York City professor’s tweets about ‘dead cops’ came to light on Friday after he appeared on Fox News.
‘Some of y’all might think it sucks being an anti-fascist teaching at John Jay College but I think it’s a privilege to teach future dead cops,’ tweeted Michael Issacson on August 23.
Issacson is a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, which is part of the public City University of New York system.
The 29-year-old appeared on Fox on Thursday night and by Friday, after his previous tweets came to light, three police union bosses had called for his firing, reports the New York Daily News.
The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, the Detectives’ Endowment Association and the NYPD Captains Endowment Association all released statements condemning Issacson’s action.
Issacson told the Daily News: ‘I don’t have a problem with individual police officers — I mean, I teach them — but I don’t like policing as an institution.’
Issacson appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight on Thursday night. The publicity caused his August 23 tweet about police to resurface
Issacson is pictured holding a sign that reads: ‘Richard Spencer is still a d***.’ Spencer is a white supremacist
He added to the New York Post: ‘I critique policing as an institution which operates at the behest of a state that increasingly represents the weapons and prison industry rather than the public they’re supposed to serve through decades of gerrymandering by both Republicans and Democrats.’
The professor is involved in the antifa – or anti-fascist – movement.
He founded a group called Smash Racism D.C., which advocates violence against organized white supremacists.
He also considers himself to be an anarchist.
Issacson told the New York Daily News: ‘I don’t have a problem with individual police officers — I mean, I teach them — but I don’t like policing as an institution.’ Pictured at right is John Jay College, where he works as a professor
Pictured is the August 23 tweet that Issacson tweeted from his account, @VulgarEconomics
The publicity surrounding Isaacson’s comments came as a result of his appearance on the Tucker Carlson show.
On the show, the professor did verbal battle with the conservative commentator.
He told Carlson: I teach [my students] to think critically, and that’s why I’m very open about my anti-fascism and my anarchism.’
Tweeters have sent death threats to Issacson ever since his August 23 tweet.
John Jay College said it would release a statement on Friday.