College Girl Forced Out Of School After Being Smeared As Racist Over Doorbell Prank

The University of Mississippi student who was seen on a doorbell cam acting silly outside someone’s apartment has apologized and withdrawn from school after she was labeled a racist.

The 18-year-old woman, identified as Alaina Kunes, went viral after a brief video of her and her two friends acting like monkeys and beating their chests started circulating on TikTok. The footage has been viewed close to 13 million times as of Wednesday. It was posted late last week by Jakiyra Metcalf, a fellow student at the school.

Kunes and her friends have been blasted as racists since the student who lives in the apartment they pranked is black. In response to the backlash, Kunes issued an apology and reportedly dropped out of college despite saying that she and her friends didn’t know who lived in the apartment.

“To the women I offended and to the Ole Miss community, I sincerely apologize,” the student said in a statement released by a representative on her behalf. “Before the incident on November 6, I never met the women involved and was unaware of their race, however, I recognize my actions were insensitive, inappropriate, and deeply harmful.”

“I would have never intentionally made those noises or gestures toward a person of color. I have apologized to the women and I pray they will forgive me,” she added, according to The Mississippi Clarion Ledger.

Kunes went on to say she’s been relentlessly harassed and has received death threats in the wake of the incident. 

“I ask for privacy for my family. I understand the seriousness of this situation and remain committed to taking responsibility and learning from this embarrassing ordeal,” her statement says. 

University of Mississippi Vice Chancellor Shawnboda Mead said on Monday that the incident is being “actively investigated” and that “our staff have reached out to the students directly impacted to offer support, listen to their concerns, and connect them with available resources. We will continue to support them as we work through this process.”

While the legacy media and leftist mob clutched their pearls, reactions on X were heavily skeptical.

“What’s the crime, exactly?” one person wondered, echoing what many other were saying.

“You better crack down on every racial comment blacks make if you’re going after these girls,” another X user wrote. 

“Shamelessly ruining a young woman’s life over some monkey sounds. Just proving memes correct,” another said.

Daily Wire host Matt Walsh also weighed in on the outrage that he said reminded him of the country’s “peak woke” era in the early 2020s.

“It’s like we’ve fallen into a time warp back to 2021. This is moral hysteria. It wouldn’t even be remotely justified if the girls really did make a racist gesture. But they didn’t. This is the kind of stuff we saw during peak woke at its most feverish and delusional,” Walsh wrote.

“Karmelo Anthony stabbed a white kid to death and was still able to stay in school and graduate with no issues while his family raised half a million dollars and bought a new house. A white girl made a noise into a Ring camera and had to withdraw from school for her own safety within a day of the video being posted online. That basically tells you everything you need to know about the racial disparities in this country,” he said in a separate post.

Three black students, including Metcalf, appeared on “CBS Mornings” Wednesday to further discuss the incident.

“We actually went outside and tried to approach them and get them to explain why they did that,” Metcalf said.

“One girl was apologizing. She was like, ‘I’m sorry, we did that to like four doors,’” Ole Miss student Victoria G. Johnson said. “And mind you, we didn’t see anyone else’s door. It was just ours that was targeted.”

“I had said that I don’t think they should go around, even if they did go to other people’s doors and do that,” she went on. “I don’t think they should because it’s very disrespectful.”

Johnson’s mother Chiquita Lao told “CBS Mornings” that she believes Kunes should be held “accountable.” 

“I want people to be mindful of their actions but I also want people who would potentially experience the same situations to speak out and don’t let things be swept under the rug,” she said. “Because this is a reality for us and I feel like voices need to be heard.”