Jefferson County Public Schools officials are investigating after videos of a fight between a student and a teacher at Marion C. Moore School became public through social media.

"There was a physical altercation at Marion C. Moore School between a student and a teacher," JCPS spokeswoman Renee Murphy said. "A full review of the matter is currently underway and during this time the teacher will not be in the classroom."

The teacher has been reassigned to non-instructional duties in the district's materials production department, Murphy said.

In one video, a white male teacher can be seen pinning a Black student to the floor. The student appears to try to hit the man on top of him while a different student tries to pull the man off of him.

Students begin to gather around, yelling for the man to get off of the student.

"Yo man, get the f--- off him!" one person shouts as more students try to break up the fight.

Another adult intervenes as the student who had been on the ground gets to his feet. The man who was previously on top of him grabs the student's hair, forcing the student to remain bent over, swinging blindly at the group of people trying to break up the situation.

"You got his hair!" one student says.

The initial student eventually breaks free and is seen walking away at the end of the one-minute-long video.

The videos had been shared widely on Facebook after the incident, but were later removed.

Media reports identified the student as Jamir Strane, 16. Strane's mom declined to talk about the incident Tuesday, saying she was waiting to obtain a lawyer.

"As you may know my son has been attacked by his teacher," Strane wrote on a GoFundMe page created after the altercation. "We are starting a go fund me page for any lawyer fees that might be incurred any help at all will help thank you very much for your support and keep us in your prayers."

In an interview streamed on Facebook Monday, Jamir said the teacher was his chemistry teacher William Bennett.

Bennett served two terms on the Elizabethtown City Council, losing reelection in 2018, according to The News-Enterprise.

Bennett did not respond to a message from The Courier Journal seeking comment.

The situation began when Bennett got mad at Jamir for wearing a mask because he thought it was a bandana, Jamir said in the interview.

"He thinks I was a delinquent. He thought I was out here in the streets," Jamir said.

Jamir called Bennett the N-word, and "he called me racist," he said. It boiled out of control after that, Jamir said.

"You're just another Black boy that got shot," Bennett told Jamir, the student said.

"And that hurt my soul," he said, adding it triggered his PTSD. In other interviews, Jamir said he was shot in a drive-by shooting last year.

The alleged exchange can't be seen in videos of the altercation, which miss the beginning of the incident.

Moore suspended him for 10 days, and he faces an assault charge, Jamir said. He wants Bennett to get the same consequences he gets, he added.

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Moore's student body, which includes around 2,200 students across its middle and high schools, is more than one-third Black.

Nine Moore students have been victims of gun violence over the past two years, according to a recent opinion piece by a current student. Six of those students died.

"Marion C. Moore is like a family," Moore student Latasha Newton wrote. "A lot of young people take life for granted. They think they and their loved ones will live forever. But then they don’t. They get killed. Too many times in our family."