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Uwa Ede-Osifo

HISTORICAL FACTS: Two white students at university of mississippi make monkey gestures in ring video - The Untold Story

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The University of Mississippi campus in Oxford, Mississippi, on 22 October 2012. Photograph: imac/Alamy

Two white students at the University of Mississippi were captured making offensive monkey gestures in a widely panned Ring video that has prompted a school investigation.

On Saturday, freshman Jakiyra Metcalf uploaded the surveillance clip from her apartment door to TikTok, showing one woman thumping her chest and babbling like a monkey. Another woman jumped into the camera’s view and mimicked the primate noises.

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