Follow-up: Ole Miss Students Describe Confrontation; One Apologized While Another Kept Making Monkey Gestures
There are new details in the doorbell-video case at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss), in Oxford, Lafayette County, Mississippi. On November 11, the three freshmen who captured the video, Jakiyra Metcalf, Kaiyden Caldwell and Victoria G. Johnson, gave their names and described that night in an exclusive CBS Mornings interview: after discovering the footage, they went outside at once to confront the women; one apologized on the spot, while another kept making monkey gestures even as the apology was being offered. According to PEOPLE and the New York Post, the 13-second clip has now been viewed more than 12 million times on TikTok.
Metcalf, 18, said she was the first to discover the footage on her Ring doorbell camera and went outside with Johnson to demand an explanation. According to the students, Alaina Kunes, who has since identified herself, apologized during the confrontation, while the other woman continued the gestures. Johnson told CBS correspondent Jericka Duncan: "She continued to make the gestures after the girl was apologizing. It was like a slap in the face."
According to the students, the women told them, "We've did that to like, four doors," and, "We didn't mean any harm." Johnson said they saw no one else's door and that only their apartment was targeted. Metcalf said she told them that even if they had done it at other doors, they should not do it, because it is very disrespectful.
Asked for their first reactions in one word, Metcalf said she felt "hurt," Caldwell said "devastated," and Johnson called the experience "very disheartening." Asked whether she forgave Kunes, Metcalf said she had mixed feelings, and that the gestures and noises were very disrespectful regardless of whether the women knew their race. Caldwell said she appreciates the apology, but that it does not change what happened that Friday. The three are studying psychology, nursing and radiology, respectively; all grew up in Mississippi, said they had never personally experienced anything like this before, and said they intend to remain at Ole Miss. Johnson said she hopes speaking publicly will encourage others who face similar treatment to come forward and not let things be swept under the rug. As for discipline for the second woman, they said they are leaving that decision to the university and intend to cooperate with its investigation.
The reports also named the mother who joined the interview: Chiquita Lao, Johnson's mother. Describing her mixed emotions on learning that Kunes had withdrawn, she said: "As a human being, I hate to hear that because, you know, the children are our future. But I feel like everybody needs to be accountable." GSM has previously reported that Kunes publicly apologized and withdrew on November 10, that the university's investigation is continuing, and that the second woman has not been publicly identified.
Source: CBS Mornings
Published by GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
Photo: 图：密西西比大学 Lyceum 教学楼圆柱资料图（HAL333 摄，CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons），已裁为16:9，非事发公寓。/ The Lyceum columns at the University of Mississippi (file photo by HAL333, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons), cropped to 16:9; not the apartment in the video.
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