The University of Mississippi is investigating a video that appears to show two women making monkey noises and gestures outside an apartment shared by three Black students.
Ole Miss student Jakiyra Metcalf posted the 13-second Ring doorbell clip to TikTok and tagged the university. The footage, timestamped shortly after 8:30 p.m. on Nov. 6, shows three women passing the apartment. Two appear to direct the noises and gestures toward the camera, with one appearing to beat her chest.
Metcalf told ABC News that the women live upstairs in the same building. The mother of one of her roommates gave the outlet the same account. The university has not publicly identified the women, and their account of what happened was not included in the reports.
Ole Miss condemned the behavior as offensive and unacceptable and said it had contacted the students who were targeted. Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Shawnboda Mead said two university offices, including the one that handles student conduct, are reviewing the incident. Metcalf said she and her roommates expected to meet with university officials on Monday.
The clip drew more than 10 million views, and commenters urged the university to act. As speculation about the women’s identities spread, Mead said at least one student had been wrongly identified online. She also said no members of the university’s sorority community were involved, despite claims circulating in the comments.
The case follows a separate incident in 2024, when an Ole Miss student was removed from his fraternity after he was filmed making monkey gestures toward a Black woman during a campus protest. The university has not announced any disciplinary action in the latest case.
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