MSNBC contributor worried on air about domestic terror laws, calls BLM protests 'mostly peaceful'

Dr. Jason Johnson, a professor at Morgan State and a regular contributor to MSNBC, said on air on Wednesday that he was worried about domestic terror laws being a "double-edged sword".

"MSNBC’s @DrJasonJohnson worries new domestic terror laws could be used against #BLM: 'Comparing what happened on Jan. 6 to what happened last summer is completely conflating the issue. What happened last summer is mostly peaceful protesters who were attacked by police officers'"

In the above video, the interviewer first comments:

"When we think about the insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, and we watch them get to go home on bail, go on vacation to Mexico,  and we're furious about it," (one could surmise that "go on vacation to Mexico" refers to Sen. Ted Cruz).

"The argument we keep hearing is 'well, we don't have domestic terror laws in place in the US.' If we did would that not excessively harm peaceful protestors that want racial justice?"

Johnson replies:

"Comparing what happened on Jan. 6 to what happened last summer is completely conflating the issue. What happened last summer is mostly peaceful protesters who were attacked by police officers."

"At the core of it, who on earth determines when something moves from a peaceful protest to a riot? If I go to a protest and someone downtown throws a rock into a window, these kind of laws mean that you can just grab everybody in the paddy wagon [racial slur] and throw them in jail."

People on social media were quick to point out the obvious:

"While casually tossing in an Irish slur."

"But what about all of those burned down buildings? Also, if 51% of the protests were solely peaceful, and 49% were riots, then the argument that last summers’ protests were “mostly peaceful” is still logically correct. See the problem there?"