sometimes if you choose a class and then switch at the aerial view screen it will spawn u as the first class then after u die make u the second.
I can confirm that this happened to me tonight as well. Someone else chose assassin, so I went with support. That person then changed off assassin, so I selected assassin myself. The game then spawned me as support. When I died I came back as an assassin. Another strange thing that happened tonight was that I didn't select a class at all (waiting to make sure nobody else chose assassin before choosing it myself) and it automatically spawned me as an assault. I wasn't waiting around idle after the game started or anything, it spawned me as an assault at the same time everyone else was spawning.