Melissa Click, an assistant professor of communication at University of Missouri’s Department of Communication who became briefly last fall when she called for “some muscle” to help get rid of a student photographer and a videographer covering campus protests, has been charged with misdemeanor assault, according to a story from the New York Times.
According the Times report on a a campus police warrant, Click “assaulted a videographer ‘ by grabbing at his camera with her hand and attempting to knock it from his grasp’ and ‘by calling out and asking for other people in the area at the time to forcefully remove him.'”