A Black Ole Miss student’s doorbell camera caught two women appearing to make monkey noises outside her door, and now the university is investigating

The University of Mississippi says it is investigating a doorbell camera video that appears to show women making monkey noises and gestures outside an apartment shared by three Black students. Ole Miss student Jakiyra Metcalf, who posts on TikTok as @jakiyrametcalf_, shared the clip, and the school condemned the behavior in a statement to ABC News.

The 13-second Ring footage, time-stamped November 6 at about 8:37 p.m., shows three women walking past the apartment door. Two of them appear to make monkey-like noises and gestures toward the camera, including one who appears to beat her chest. Metcalf posted the clip with the caption “what do we have to say about this ??” and tagged the university’s account.

The video has drawn over ten million views. Metcalf says the women in the footage live upstairs in the same building, a claim the mother of one of her roommates also made to the outlet. The university said it was “aware of a video depicting offensive, hurtful, and unacceptable behaviors” and had reached out to the students who were targeted.

Viewers overwhelmingly called the video racist, and the school says it is following its process

Ole Miss Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Shawnboda Mead said the school’s Office of Conflict Resolution and Student Conduct and its Office of Equal Opportunity and Regulatory Compliance are looking into the incident. Metcalf said she and her roommates expected to meet with university officials on Monday. The school has not said what discipline, if any, the women could face.

The response in the comments was overwhelmingly critical of the women in the clip. The most-liked comment, with hundreds of thousands of likes, pointed out that people like this often “cheer for black athletes and listen to rap music.” Another viewer wrote, “YES ITS THAT SERIOUS,” warning anyone who planned to downplay the footage. A third simply urged people to “Report them IMMEDIATELY.”

Several commenters said they had already contacted the school, with one claiming to have called the dean of students’ office. Others predicted that apologies would follow once the women were identified, with one person writing that those apologies “will not be accepted because we know it’s coming.” A smaller group of commenters argued the women were “clearly joking,” a defense that drew heavy pushback in the replies.

The school also warned against the rush to identify the people in the video. Mead said at least one student who was accused online had been misidentified and urged people to be careful about what they share. However, some viewers had already claimed a sorority connection in the comments, and Mead said no members of the university’s sorority community were involved.

Ole Miss has dealt with similar footage before. In 2024, a student was removed from his fraternity after he was filmed making monkey gestures at a Black woman during a campus protest. Police in Texas opened their own inquiry last month after footage of a Halloween group in KKK-style outfits spread online.

The video has also renewed conversations about the experiences of Black students at the university, which James Meredith integrated in 1962. However, the women in the footage have not been publicly identified by the school, and none of them have commented on the video or the claims made about them online.

The university says it will follow its processes to protect its community, and the findings of the two offices reviewing the footage could determine whether the women face any formal consequences.

Attack of the Fanboy was unable to independently verify the women’s side of the story, as this account originates solely from Jakiyra Metcalf’s TikTok video.