Long Beach Unified School District officials say they’re reviewing a video posted to Instagram Tuesday that shows an adult restraining a student at Lakewood High School during an on-campus protest against sexual assault.

The incident happened on Monday when Lakewood High students staged a walkout in support of sexual assault survivors after social media accounts surfaced where anonymous individuals posted allegations of inappropriate behavior by their peers.

Chris Eftychiou, a spokesman for LBUSD, said students were offered space by the administration “to exercise their right to demonstrate” and bring awareness to the issue. Deputies from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Lakewood Station soon arrived after being called about a fight between two students, according to the sheriff’s department.

The video posted Tuesday shows deputies standing nearby as a man in a suit grabs a student holding a sign. The student flails their legs as the man continues to hang on. He lets go after a few moments as a crowd gathers around them.

The Instagram account that posted the video identified the man as a Lakewood High administrator. Eftychiou confirmed that the man holding the student is a staff member at the school. The district is reviewing the video, he said, but “due to confidentiality laws governing student privacy, we cannot comment further at this time.”

It is unclear what led up to the student being restrained.

Students said they staged the protest Monday because they did not feel safe on campus.

Venice Gamble, the father of a freshman who participated in the demonstration, said their concerns began in 2018 when a 19-year-old man climbed a fence and sexually assaulted a student in a bathroom shortly after he attacked another woman on a Bellflower street. The man was later sentenced to more than 29 years in prison for the two attacks.

Many of the anonymous accusations that helped spark the protest also speak out against inappropriate conduct coming from other students that posters said was not taken seriously.

Editor’s note: This story was updated with information from a LBUSD spokesperson.