CLEVELAND, Ohio — A Cleveland EMS worker was reassigned on Tuesday after a video surfaced showing the employee making an apparent “inappropriate gesture” at a Cleveland elementary school where 10 students were taken to the hospital after a student handed out weed gummies, according to city officials.

The statement does not elaborate on how officials became aware of the video. City spokesman Dan Williams said the city is not naming the employee, nor elaborating on the gesture.

Safety Director Michael McGrath will review the incident, the statement says.

The gesture was captured by television cameras at the scene on Monday and viewers of NBC’s Today show began posting on social media about the incident on social media.

The video shows an EMS worker escorting children to an ambulance while holding making an “okay” sign.

Hey, @ClevelandEMS, why did I just see one of your EMTs flashing a white power sign behind a black woman's back on national television? https://t.co/KCXgk40WEX — 🏳️‍🌈Jenny Narwhal🔮 (@Jenny_Trout) February 5, 2019

@ClevelandEMS is this one of your employees who is white power racists? — Carrie Marvin (@CarrieMarvin3) February 5, 2019

Teach them this isn't cool, in fact it's bad. VERY VERY BAD! pic.twitter.com/GFDHowyC12 — RicKitty (@Rick_Kitty) February 5, 2019

In the last few years, the gesture has become a racist sign signaling white power. A U.S. Coast Guard employee was removed from his duties in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence after he made the sign on a live broadcast with MSNBC.

The Cleveland Association of Rescue Employees, the union that represents EMS employees, said in a statement late Tuesday that they spoke with the employee, who said he made the gesture as part of game EMS workers play. The game was popularized in 2002 and brought it back through online memes and to photobomb picture takers and the media, according to the statement.

The worker was “unaware of any other meaning and in no way intended anything by this gesture to be racially motivated,” the statement says.

The incident happened about noon Monday at Anton Grdina School, where some 15 elementary school students reported eating marijuana-laced gummies.

Ten students between the ages of 5 and 9 were taken to the hospital for treatment, but only one tested positive for THC, according to police reports.

A 9-year-old boy brought the gummies to school after taking them from his mother and aunt, police reports say.

The boy’s mother was arrested on suspicion of child endangering, but has not yet been charged.