A frequent MS NOW contributor couldn't contain his glee as he recounted how immigration enforcement agents in Charlotte, North Carolina, have had their tires slashed by protesters.
Political scientist and network regular Dr. Jason Johnson made the remarks on Saturday's episode of The 11th Hour while applauding the tens of thousands of students in Charlotte, North Carolina, who walked out of class to protest ICE operations in the city.
'In addition to the fact - and I won't say that I'm suggesting this behavior - but ICE agents have found that their tires are slashed,' he said, as host Stephanie Ruhle jumped in to say, 'stop it.'
'Yes, they have been chased out of buildings, chased out of restaurants,' Johnson continued.
'But that's dangerous behavior,' Ruhle responded.
'It is dangerous behavior, but it is a demonstration that the American public, when they're not being listened to, these are the options that they'll take,' Johnson concluded.
'I hope this administration listens and pulls back these ICE raids.'
Johnson gave his assessment offered during a segment of the show called 'MVP of the Week.'
Political scientist Dr. Jason Johnson appeared to revel in the fact that multiple immigration enforcement agents in Charlotte, North Carolina, have had their tires slashed by protesters.
Roughly 30,000 Charlotte students staged a walkout on Monday, November 17, in protest of the ICE operation.
Johnson, a professor of Multimedia Journalism at Morgan State University, has been a political contributor at the network since 2017.
He awarded the MVP to the more than 30,000 students who staged a walk-out in Charlotte last week in protest of ongoing ICE raids in the city.
The walkout was staged on Monday, November 17, the same day that ICE and Border Patrol agents began an operation in the city that saw roughly 250 suspected illegal immigrants arrested.
Johnson chided the agents who took part in the operation, complaining that they 'terrorized' citizens and 'supposedly undocumented people', and 'shut down traffic.'
'You have schools were 30 to 40 percent of the students are not showing up. And these young people, on their own, without politicians, without Mom, without Mom and Dad, said, "We're standing against this. We want our country to be better."
'And thousands of them walked out of their schools in protest to say, "We don't want ICE here."'
Ruhle concluded the exchange by expressing her 'hope' that 'nothing violent happens to any of these students.'
Johnson made headlines in 2022 after he agreed with then-colleague Joy Reid after she said the NFL had tried to 'sanitize blackness' by allowing Eminem to take a knee during that year's Super Bowl half-time show instead of a black star.
In 2021, he tore into ex-New York Times opinion editor Bari Weiss for promoting an op-ed she wrote for Deseret News in which she slammed the 'illiberal left' for behavior becoming of a 'totalitarian society.'
Johnson, a professor of Multimedia Journalism at Morgan State University, has been a political contributor at the network since 2017. He was also a politics editor for TheRoot.com.