A boy was beaten at school while other students watched and filmed the film

A boy was beaten by his Florida comrades who watched and filmed the incident, police said and school officials said.

The student who appears to be hitting the victim in the video is the subject of a single battery investigation, said Captain Steven Pacheco of the Lakeland Police Department. He was also suspended for 10 days, said Jacqueline Byrd, director of Polk County Public Schools.

Byrd added that other people saw the victim and the students who videotaped the videotaped event are facing academic discipline Byrd said at a press conference Friday that a teacher who should have supervised the students is currently the subject of an administrative investigation.

"It's a very good question, where was the teacher?" she said.

Tuesday's defeat at Blake Academy, a public college located in Lakeland, Florida, drew public attention after a woman who identified herself as the victim's mother posted a video of the aggression on Facebook. The video recorded more than 6,000 views before being deleted, according to WFLA, affiliated with NBC News, in Tampa, Florida.

Lauren Springfield criticized what she described as lack of reaction on the part of school administrators because her child is African American and the alleged offender is white.

Byrd did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

At the press conference on Friday, she was asked if she thought the attack was racially motivated.

"I can not say if I think race was involved," said Byrd. "It should not happen to any child."

Springfield asked why the three-minute attack could take place without any teachers apparently having intervened.

"Where is our world going?" Springfield said in his Facebook post Wednesday.

"I asked the school administrators what would happen to other children involved," she wrote. "Do you want to know their answer? We can not tell you!"

Byrd said at the press conference that she had spoken to the victim's mother.

"I talked to mom and that's why we're here together," she said. "These things should not happen on our campus."

It is unclear what preceded the video, but Pacheco said the attack began after words had been exchanged between boys in the locker room. The video published by Springfield shows two other boys holding the victim while another assaults.

"I can guarantee you that it would have been a group of black students on an isolated white student, we would have a completely different conversation," said Springfield. "I am discouraged, I am tired, I am afraid for my son and I am completely enraged."

Michelle Acevedo contributed.