Missouri Student Files Complaint Against Professor Who Called for ‘Muscle’

Gamer Madhani reports: The University of Missouri student who filmed assistant professor Melissa Click call for “muscle” to eject him from a protest site on campus says he has filed a complaint with police alleging simple assault.

Mark Schierbecker said that he filed the complaint with campus police late Wednesday and was waiting to hear if they would press charges against Click, an assistant professor in the university’s Department of Communication. A police department spokesman, Major Brian Weimar, confirmed the complaint had been filed.

“We are looking into this and following up,” Weimar said.

Click did not immediately respond to request for comment.

A video showing a photographer’s clash with University of Missouri protesters who tried to block his access in a public section of campus is fanning debate about freedom of the press. (Nov. 10) AP

Video of a confrontation by Schierbecker on Monday showed allies of the Concerned Student 1950 movement berating another student-journalist, Tim Tai, who was trying to photograph a campsite that protesters had established on the university’s quad. At the end of the video, Schierbecker approaches Click, who calls for “muscle” to remove him from the protest area. She then appears to grab at Schierbecker’s camera.

The campus has been embroiled in protests over administrators handling of a series of racially-charged incidents on campus. On Monday, the state’s university system president Tim Wolfe and Mizzou chancellor R. Bowen Loftin announced their resignations.

Under fire, Click resigned her courtesy appointment with the journalism school on Tuesday, but remains an assistant professor at the university.

Click issued a statement on Tuesday….(read more)

Source: USAToday