The University of Florida placed an employee on paid administrative leave after several videos showing him grab, shove and jostle black graduates onstage during a commencement ceremony Saturday went viral.
Although Mic was unable to independently verify his identity, students said the marshal was Alexander David Jacobs, a lecturer in the university’s Department of Chemistry. Still images of the man from the ceremony also bear a striking resemblance to the headshot on Jacobs’ faculty page.
“We have an idea that’s him, and some people say that he was their professor so they know that that was him,’” said Christopher Garcia-Wilde, 22, one of the graduates at the ceremony. “[All] the marshals who helped facilitate that graduation are professors within [the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences] ... and some of his students recognized him.”
[For more on this story by Natelegé Whaley, go to https://mic.com/articles/18928...-lecturer#.sYRlbkVhT]
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