Mizzou prof apologizes for calling on protesters to assault reporter.
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On Monday protesting Mizzou race activists harassed an Asian reporter while protesting in a public place.
Mizzou professor Melissa Click, an assistant professor of mass media at the University of Missouri, ordered a journalist to leave an area where demonstrators had gathered on the Missouri campus.
She then called activists to “muscle” the Asian journalist off campus!
This morning Mizzou journalism faculty voted to revoke the appointment of activist professor Melissa Click.
The faculty have not yet announced the results of their vote.
Tonight Melissa Click apologized for threatening violence against a campus reporter.
Buzzfeed reported:
The assistant mass media professor seen on video asking for “muscle” to help remove a journalist covering public demonstrations at the University of Missouri issued an apology Tuesday as fellow faculty decided whether to remove her courtesy title.
“I regret the language and I used, and sincerely apologize to the MU campus community, and journalists at large, for my behavior, and also for the way my actions have shifted attention away from the students’ campaign for justice,” Melissa Click said her statement issued through the university.