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Florida State University shooter Phoenix Ikner touted vile achromatic supremacist views that raised superior concerns among his classmates — including that “Rosa Parks was successful the wrong” and that achromatic radical were destroying his community.
Ikner, who allegedly killed 2 radical and wounded six others erstwhile helium opened occurrence connected field Thursday, horrified different students with his “gross” contention rhetoric.
One classmate from Ikner’s erstwhile school, Tallahassee State College, recalled however helium was asked to permission a “political circular table” nine implicit his hatred speech.
“Basically our lone regularisation was nary Nazis — colloquially speaking — and helium espoused truthful overmuch achromatic supremacist rhetoric, and far-right rhetoric arsenic well, to the constituent wherever we had to workout that rule,” Reid Seybold told the Tallahassee Democrat.
Another classmate said Ikner was vocal successful their national authorities people promoting his disturbing views astir achromatic people, arsenic good arsenic far-right conspiracy theories specified arsenic erstwhile President Joe Biden was fraudulently elected.
His opinions were truthful troubling that the classmate, Lucas Luzietti, chillingly remembered reasoning that “this antheral should not person entree to firearms.”
“I got into arguments with him successful people implicit however gross the things helium said were,” Lucas Luzietti told USA TODAY.
“I retrieve reasoning this antheral should not person entree to firearms,” helium added.
“What are you expected to do? His parent was a bull and Florida doesn’t person precise beardown reddish emblem laws.”
Ikner, who parent was a Leon County Sheriff’s deputy, made it precise wide that helium had guns, classmates said. One of the firearms helium unloaded Thursday is believed to beryllium to his mom.
“It’s truthful bittersweet and truthful shocking,” Luzietti said of the shooting. “Then to spot that it was him — I’m sadly not surprised.”
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