Hundreds of Oregon high schoolers protested after students shared a video with racial slurs

• Hundreds of high schoolers protested over a classmate's racist TikTok, NBC News reported.
• The video had slurs about Asians, Latinos, Muslims, and Black people, according to NBC News.

Hundreds of high schoolers in Oregon protested after a student posted a video filled with racist slurs, NBC News reported.

The video showed a student from the high school using racist slurs in reference to Asian, Latino, Muslim, and Black people as another student asked her questions from behind the camera, NBC News reported.

The clip originated on Instagram and spread around the community during Thanksgiving break, according to Tigard High School's newspaper, the Paw. The school is located in Tigard, Oregon, near Portland, and had a student body of around 1,700 people in the 2019-20 school year, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

Insider was unable to obtain the reported video nor verify when it was published.

On December 1, an estimated 400 Tigard High School students marched out of class to protest the video and hate speech, the Paw reported.

An apparent video of the protest, posted to TikTok on December 1, shows huge crowds of students holding signs and walking around outside and through a building.

Tigard High School's Principal, Brian Bailey, wrote in an email to staff members and the student body on November 30 that there would be efforts "to address the individuals who have caused harm and equally as important, to provide spaces and resources to those who have been harmed by this careless act," according to the Paw.

Bailey and Tigard High School didn't immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment on Friday.

The incident follows two similar ones at other schools this year.

In November, students at Massachusetts' Quincy High School walked out after a racist student video surfaced online, according to NBC Boston. Students from a high school in Minnesota and nearby schools also protested in November after two students posted a video on social media with a racial slur that targeted a 14-year-old student, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.