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A fraternity at the University of Mississippi has booted out a member who taunted a black protester with monkey noises as the college faces calls to expel him.
Finance major James 'JP' Staples was named by the college chapter of the NAACP as the student who was filmed hopping from foot to foot and grunting like an ape at Jaylin Smith during an ugly clash on the college's Oxford campus.
Staples, 21, was expelled from a college fraternity on Friday as it condemned 'racist actions antithetical to the values of Phi Delta Theta and the Mississippi Alpha chapter'.
But black students are demanding he be stripped of his college place, along with two Kappa Alpha fraternity members who they accuse of also racially abusing protesters.
'Those students who publicly hurled atrocious and racist rhetoric as well as exhibited disgusting and offensive behavior, NEED to be expelled from this university,' wrote NAACP chapter president Megan Curry. 'I said what I said, and I mean it. TRULY.'
James Staples was filmed hopping from foot to foot and grunting like an ape at Jaylin Smith
The finance major has been expelled by his Phi Delta Theta chapter over his 'racist actions'
Tempers flared at the leafy campus as group of around 30 pro-Palestinian protesters were met by more than 200 counter-demonstrators on Thursday.
Smith was barracked with chants of 'Lizzo' and 'lock her up' after stepping forward to film the counter-protest as police tried to keep the sides apart.
Video of the encounter was approvingly reposted by Republican representative Mike Collins, who shared it with the caption, 'Ole Miss taking care of business'.
He was forced into an abrupt U-turn on Monday, suggesting Staples should seek 'forgiveness', as a backlash against the monkey gestures spread.
'I understand and respect the feedback that's been shared regarding a single individual during the Ole Mis protests', he wrote.
'If that person is found to have treated another human being improperly because of their race, they should be punished appropriately, and will hopefully seek forgiveness,' he wrote.
Staples is a former high school footballer from Plano in Texas, studying Real Estate and Finance at the college where fees average $27,000 a year.
University chancellor Glenn F Boyce said the school had launched an investigation into
