Melissa Click (Credit: YouTube/Mark Schierbecker, via Heavy).
The University of Missouri communications professor who wanted to boot journalists from the scene of a campus protest, and who underscored that desire by calling for “muscle” to remove them, is now facing a misdemeanor assault charge.
Melissa Click, who worked as an assistant in the school’s communications department, was cited in a campus police filing by the student journalist who was targeted with her call for “some muscle,” Reuters reported. Her angry rhetoric was recorded on video by Mark Schierbecker, a student at the school, and posted on social media, as WND previously reported.
Schierbecker said of his complaint: “I don’t want anyone to assume that because the city is dealing wiht her criminal behavior. that this problem goes away. I am urging the university to enact reasonable protections that ensure journlists can gather news without being strong-armed.”
Schierbecker, 22, is majoring in history and German at the school, but plans to pursue a career in journalism.
Click will now be given a court date. Her charge, a third-degree, class C misdemeanor, comes with a possible 15 day jail sentence and $300 fine.
Following her widely watched protest performance, she resigned from the communications department at the university, as WND previously reported.
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