Chicago City Wire

Chicago teacher Billy Jackson has openly called for the death of all police in a recent social media post.

“All Police Deserve to be DEAD,” Jackson said in a Facebook post. “Comment all you want, you will be ignored. #FACTS.”

On Facebook Jackson identifies himself as an artist, teacher and actor, but on LinkedIn Jackson also identifies as a "social activist." 

A screenshot of the offending Facebook comment.

Chicago residents have taken to the Chicago Public Schools Facebook page to demand Jackson be removed from the classroom.

“Is radical so-called "teacher" Billy Jackson-Dowdell going to teach kids how to kill Police Officers, since he's publicly calling for all Police Officers to be killed? Or is this something the School District agrees with?” Wayne Nutt wrote.

“FIRE BILLY JACKSON-DOWDELL,” Kevin O’Connor wrote.

According to his Facebook account, in addition to being "in love with Jamaican rum" Jackson has been an art teacher at Chicago Public Schools since 2009.

“I currently work as a Art teacher servicing 2 schools on the south side,” Jackson wrote on his profile.

It is unclear which schools employ Jackson, but a public records database shows a William Jackson employed at Wendell Phillips Academy, which is located on the South Side, earning $64,545 per year as of 2017. 

Jackson was raised in Oak Park. After graduating from Oak Park and River Forest High School 2004 Jackson attended the School of Art Institute of Chicago where he received a bachelor’s degree in art education in 2008 and a master’s degree in 2012.  

He previously had a career as an actor beginning at the age of six and through his college years prior to becoming an art teacher.

Jackson also lists himself as the founder and CEO of P.A.A.W. Inc. Corporation, which is apparently a company through which he sells art. Art listed for sale includes screenprinted t-shirs of the faces of actress Kathy Bates, comedian Redd Fox and Rachel Dolezal. Dolezal is infamous for masquerading as a black woman as the head of a NAACP chapter.

Jackson appears to have a second Facebook account that is more professional in tone.

A workers' compensation settlement in the amount of $90,000 was also granted to a "William Jackson."