Mizzou Prof Who Called For “Some Muscle” is CHARGED WITH ASSAULT

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Remember Mizzou professor Melissa Click who famously blocked a student journalist who was trying to cover the campus protests last year? She has finally been charged with assault.

The Kansas City Star reports:

MU professor Melissa Click, who called for ‘muscle’ to remove reporter, charged with assault

Melissa Click, the University of Missouri communications professor who garnered widespread scorn for trying to physically remove a student reporter from a campus protest, was formally charged with assault Monday morning.

A spokeswoman for the Columbia Prosecutor’s Office said Click was being charged with third degree assault, a class C misdemeanor that carries a possible 15-day jail sentence.

Click was caught on video calling for “some muscle” to remove a student reporter from an area on the university’s flagship campus where protesters had gathered. The protests eventually led to the resignation of University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfe and Mizzou Chancellor R. Bown Loftin. Click, however, remains as an assistant professor in the Department of Communications.

Last month a group of 100 Republican state legislators publicly called for the university to fire Click. They were joined last month by David Steelman, a member of the university system’s board of curators.

How does this woman still have her job?

 

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