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Activist Mizzou Professor Charged with Assault
Remember Melissa Click? She was the Mizzou communications professor who asked for “some muscle” to forcibly remove a student journalist from a protestor encampment on public property. The university refused to fire Click, but another group of government officials would like to have a few words with her:
Published in Education, LawThe Allman Report has confirmed that MU Communication Professor Melissa Click has been charged with a class C, or 3rd degree assault, for her actions during the MU campus protests in November.
Click and another university employee are seen with a group of other students, intimidating the reporters and physically blocking them from covering the aftermath of student protests at Mizzou which ended with the resignation of two top University of Missouri officials that week…
Columbia State Representative Caleb Jones says the charges are appropriate. “While the University of Missouri seems to have no accountability, the judicial system in Missouri does,” said Jones.
Good.
It couldn’t have happened to a more worthy person.
Good. Hope it costs her a lot in legal fees.
Every time I see that picture I think, “I don’t remember a bad witch in the Banana Splits…“
I’ll take the 15 days, but she should have been fired.
100 faculty members signed a letter of support for her. Perhaps the Missouri legislature should close the school, fumigate and start over. But they should make sure to require medical exams for the new president – to confirm presence of a pair.
(I think that is COC compliant.)
How’s #BLM working out for her? She’s going to have 6 x 8 safe space and learn her personal value in cigarettes.
John Seymour, I did my undergrad there and think they should bulldoze the campus, tear up every shrub, fill the football stadium up as a man made lake and salt the earth around it. The place is disgraceful.
I almost called her the Carrot Top of the Plains, but I didn’t want to insult prop comics.
How does this person still have a job at Mizzou? It’s wishful thinking, but wouldn’t it be nice if a conviction finally forced the school to fire her.
Wonderful, So now we make her a martyr to her cause and give her street cred to enchant her charges and she get a bunch of free press and costs the taxpayers bunches of dollars. Talk about a lose – lose.
8/10 students from my son’s high school graduating class headed to MU upon graduation. My son was not among them. While doing his college selection research, he reached out to MU’s history department to ask a few questions about the department and opportunities. The response that he received dripped with condescension, making it clear that he would not be able to study what he wanted to study (military history). He never applied, instead headed west to Kansas State, receiving a very generous scholarship. He spoke with some friends who did go to MU. They assured him that he made the correct decision and the department would have caused him to quit. So glad he found out early.
Does anyone else find that her scarf/whatever is the same color as field and makes her head look weirdly disembodied?
I do now. But I won’t tell the doctor if you don’t.
The First Amendment… Or as it’s called at Mizzou, shameless “Click” bait…
I’m okay with that too. I wasn’t thinking that salt is the best weapon against leeches.
Regarding this optimistic quote from the cited article: we’ll see whether the judicial system, including the prosecutor on the case, actually believes in accountability. A plea bargain that leaves Click out of jail will demonstrate that the prosecutor is only pandering. A jail sentence will argue otherwise.
It also would be good to see the prosecutor positively protecting Click’s rights as a defendant, by ardently pressing for her 6th Amendment right to a speedy and public trial.
Eric Hines
I’m not a fisherman, but wouldn’t salting the surrounding terrain put the fishing at risk?
Eric Hines
Yes! Justice, I hope.
Just as the real cause of chickenpox is not the chickenpox sores but the chickenpox virus, the real problem at Mizzou is not Melissa Click but the hundred plus faculty members who think that she was merely exercising her first amendment rights when she called for some muscle. They wrote:
Melissa Click was merely a fool who got caught up in the heat of the moment. These faculty members had time to pause and reflect: then they each signed this intellectually dishonest letter. In focusing all our ire at a silly professor, the sinister faculty who cannot tell the difference between the first amendment and inciting violence are getting let off the hook. And they belong on the hook.
One remembers the man who claimed to be an Indian, at a Colorado school if I remember correctly. A real piece of work, that man.
Then there is the senator who claims American Indian ancestry. There were those who wanted her to run for president. (I am not one of those potential supporters. I merely read about it.)
In the land of PC, the only crime to be avoided is conservatism. It can make you unemployable.
I heartily agree with Tom Meyer’s scarf comment. She ought to go to jail simply for that fashion violation.
Yes, that is the real problem. Academia has gone full prog. Leftism has what was once the apotheosis of the First Amendment—the American university—under the vice grip of totalitarianism. Insidious diversity initiatives, affirmative action, and identity politics are merely the velvet glove worn by the iron fist of authoritarianism.
I saw a comment on a Breitbart article once about how progressivism works. If I recall, the commenter remarked that Leftism begins by mere objection to the status quo. As it gains some momentum and institutions change to reflect their desired reality, they become the new dictators.
Yeah, but–it’s nice to have baking soda bathwater on those sores.
And all you can do about the virus is wait it out, anyway.
I’ll take the mild balm of seeing her punished for now.
When you’ve lost the t-Cons (t-shirt Conservatives) …
Any body of water associated with Mizzou will be known as the Dead Sea.
My recommendation is that she be sentenced to perform ten years of community service teaching middle school English in Ferguson.
With apologies to Oscar Wilde, one must have a heart of stone to read the prosecution of little Melissa without giggling like an outpatient.
Of course now there’ll be bumper stickers, “Click for Justice”, or some dang thing.
Tell us how you really feel.