‘I teach future dead cops’

Antifa teacher pulled by CUNY

A professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice was suspended Friday amid a furious outcry over his online boast that “it’s a privilege to teach future dead cops.”

Self-described “antifa” activist and “anarcho-communist” Michael Isaacson, 29, ignited a firestorm of controversy as reports spread about the vile crack on his obscure @VulgarEconomics Twitter account.

“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,” Isaacson (left) tweeted on Aug. 23.

A chorus of police union leaders and elected officials — including Mayor de Blasio — on Friday demanded that he be fired from his part-time job in the economics department of the CUNY school.

“New York City won’t stand for the vile anti-police rhetoric of Michael Isaacson and neither should John Jay College,” de Blasio tweeted.

Around the same time, John Jay President Karol Mason announced that Isaacson had been yanked from the classroom.

“Today, members of the John Jay faculty received threats, and our students expressed concerns for their safety in the classroom,” Mason said in a prepared statement.

“Out of concern for the safety of our students, faculty and staff, we are immediately placing the adjunct on administrative leave as we continue to review this matter.”

Mason also said she was “shocked” by Isaacson’s “abhorrent” views, adding: “I am appalled that anyone associated with John Jay, with our proud history of supporting law en- forcement authorities, would suggest that violence against police is ever acceptable.”

Isaacson said in an e-mail statement Friday that he regretted putting his students at risk.

“I deeply apologize to the John Jay community for making them the target of death threats and harassment,” he wrote.

Earlier in the day, he wrote in a statement: “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.

“I illuminate this fact in my classes in the hopes that my students are able to choose a career path that does not put them in the position of having to act as an agent of that institution,” he added.

In a letter to Mason, the head of the NYPD’s largest union said Isaacson needed to be fired over his “disgusting anti-police attitudes and his gleeful embrace of political violence, including violence against police officers.

“It is absolutely outrageous that an individual who holds and expresses these views could be employed by any academic institution, much less one that counts an overwhelming number of New York City police officers as among its students, alumni and faculty members,” PBA president Pat Lynch wrote.

NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill, a John Jay grad, tweeted: “I know Michael Isaacson’s reprehensible values don’t represent @JohnJayCollege, #NYC, #NYPD or families of murdered cops,” O’Neill wrote. Additional reporting by Alex Taylor

At most college campuses, having a professor who jokes about “future dead cops” would be disgusting — but sadly par for the course. At CUNY’s John Jay College for Criminal Justice, however, it’s a death wish for his own students, most of whom plan futures in law enforcement.

Adjunct professor Michael Isaacson’s Aug. 23 tweet was crystal-clear: “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.”

Which is why the anarchist and Antifa leader has no business teaching at John Jay.

And why President Karol Mason late Friday placed Isaacson on administrative leave pending further review, denouncing his “abhorrent” statements.

Bizarrely, Isaacson insisted in an interview that he doesn’t “have a problem with individual police officers.” No — he just wants them dead.

Especially if they refuse his advice to choose a different career, rather than serve as “an agent of control.”

If he hates policing and hopes that those who choose that path wind up dead, why is he even teaching at John Jay?

His political activities have been no secret, but his appalling tweet didn’t become known until Thursday, when he talked up Antifa on Fox News. Police unions checked out his Twitter feed, saw his public death call — and angrily demanded his firing.

Even obnoxious ignoramuses like Isaacson are protected by the First Amendment. But when you gleefully joke about your students — future cops who are preparing to lay their lives on the line to protect their fellow citizens — getting killed, you’ve forfeited any right to teach them.