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Ole Miss launches investigation after students caught on camera making monkey noises toward home of Black students

The Independent·Isabel Keane·1 day ago
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Ole Miss is investigating after a video showing white students making racist gestures toward the home of a Black students went viral on social media over the weekend.

Ring doorbell footage shared on TikTok Friday by Ole Miss student Jakiyra Metcalf showed three white women walking past her apartment door. As the women passed, two of them made monkey- or ape-like noises and gestures while looking directly at the camera.

The student’s mother, Tasha Bolton, also shared the footage on Facebook and called on the university to discipline the students involved.

“My daughter sent me this video from her Ring camera at her apartment. She’s a freshman at the University of Mississippi. She has 2 black roommates. The girls on the video live upstairs from them,” she wrote.

“The video has been shared with university administration, and we want answers.…

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