A math teacher at St. Paul’s Como Park Senior High is on administrative leave over statements he made related to the presidential election.

In a message to families Tuesday, Principal Theresa Neal said the alleged “inappropriate comments” made several students feel “unsafe and uncomfortable.”

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Joanne Hodgeman, whose daughter is in the math class, identified the teacher as Bruce Ringaman. He has taught in the district since 1998, district records show.

The district would not confirm the teacher’s name, but it acknowledged separately that Ringaman is on administrative leave.

Hodgeman said Ringaman on Monday showed his class a viral video from Chicago of several African-Americans beating a white man.

“He said that these four black kids beat this old white guy because he was a Trump supporter,” she said.

According to Hodgeman, Ringaman “went on to talk about he proudly voted for Trump,” that he supports building a wall on the Mexican border and said that blacks should go “back to Africa.”

Ringaman is white.

At Como, 35 percent of students are black, 31 percent Asian-American, 23 percent white and 9 percent Hispanic.

A phone number for Ringaman could not be found, and a message to his school email address was not immediately returned Tuesday. A representative from the St. Paul teachers union could not be immediately reached Tuesday night.

In the Chicago video, several African-American males can be seen beating a white man and taunting him about voting for Donald Trump following a minor car crash. The victim told the Chicago Tribune that he did vote for Donald Trump, but that the males could not have known that when they attacked him.

Last school year, a special education teacher at Como was suspended and later retired under a settlement agreement after complaints about his personal blog that some saw as racist.

Mara Gottfried and Nick Woltman contributed to this report.