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Despite President Delaney’s request for students and faculty to remain calm, at least one professor cancelled class in response to a perceived threat from Ken Parker’s social media account.

During a heated argument last night, a photo was posted from Parker’s Facebook account of him wielding a gun with the comment, “It is okay to be WHITE!!!!! Let SDS and the other clowns come at me, I will shut them down. Fuck the BLM BS!!! I am WHITE and PROUD, and these queer balls have yet to confront me on campus.”

Both the comment and photo were later deleted.

UNF Professor Hans-Herbert Koegler cancelled his Philosophy of the Social Sciences class today in response to the unresolved threats. In a message to his students on campus Koegler wrote, “With a heavy heart (for several reasons, as you may soon see) I have to cancel tonight’s class. To not do so would imply that I risk your safety, possibly lives, for the sake of our (admittedly otherwise very important) meeting.”

Koegler went on to share a message he received from Chair of Philosophy and Religious Studies Mitchell Haney, who informed Koegler about the alleged threat posted from Parker’s social media account.

“Last night on social media a threat was made by a student identified as a former Grand Dragon of the KKK and now an active neo-Nazi toward another UNF student during a heated round of name calling,” Chaney said in the message.” He posted an image of himself with an assault rifle and subsequently promised to confront a UNF student on campus (as he put it “this is not a threat, it is a PROMISE.)”

The argument, which took place in the comments section of a Spinnaker article on Facebook, included comments from both Parker’s account, as well as Zack Morse’s account. Morse, who posted a controversial snapchat video that went viral, was at times called out directly in the comments.

Spinnaker contacted UNFPD for a comment, but has not received a response at the time of this posting.

Students took to social media to share that their professors were canceling classes. UNF student Lina Rodriguez wrote, “Okay I am scared now,” on her Twitter with a screenshot from Koegler about cancelling class.

https://twitter.com/linaaamarcela/status/930505826460209152

The student who submitted the screenshots from Facebook wished to remain anonymous.

Spinnaker will provide updates as more information becomes available.

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