Mizzou fires Melissa Click over student run-ins

Melissa Click screams at a journalist to leave, then calls for “some muscle” to help remove him.

Melissa Click, the University of Missouri assistant professor who had been subjected to disciplinary action after a video of her screaming for “some muscle” to remove a journalist from the scene of a campus protest, has been fired.

Pam Henrickson, chair of the university system’s governing Board of Curators, said Click’s actions were “not compatible with university policies and did not meet expectations for a university faculty member,” and her behavior required “serious action,” the Associated Press reported.

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Click, 45, had also been seen on video cursing a police officer who grabbed her during a different protest in October.

Since, 100-plus state lawmakers have called for her firing. Henrickson said their views didn’t influence the board’s 4-2 vote to send Click packing – a vote that had been taken behind closed doors.

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Specifically, Henrickson said, the New York Times reported: “The circumstances surrounding Dr. Click’s behavior, both at a protest in October when she tried to interfere with police officers who were carrying out their duties, and at a rally in November, when she interfered with members of the media and students who were exercising their rights in a public space and called for intimidation against one of our students, we believe demands serious action.”

Click, who can appeal the decision before a March 4 deadline, was also cut from receiving any severance package.

The video clip from a November campus protest that went viral showed Click telling a journalist with a camera “you need to get out” and shouting “I need some muscle over here” to help toss him from the area.

Click, who was identified in the New York Times simply as a University of Missouri professor, had technically been an assistant professor of communications at the time of the November protest. The university in prior emailed statements to WND had tried to clarify Click’s role as less high-profile – as an assistant professor in the Missouri University Department of Communication in the College of Arts and Sciences who served, at the time of the November incident, as an appointee in the School of Journalism helping graduate students meet their standards.

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