Missouri professor who pushed reporter charged with assault

School considering her for tenure

Melissa Click garnered national attention when she shoved, and called security, on a journalist covering students gathering to protest race relations at the University of Missouri last fall.

It started when reporter Mark Schierbecker asked Click, "I'm media. Can I talk to you?" Click snapped back, "no. You need to get out."

When Schierbecker said, “no, I don't,” Click called out, “hey, who wants to help me get this reporter out of here? I need some muscle over here."

Click is still employed at the school, and interim chancellor Hank Foley said, "Dr. Click is frankly aggrieved by this whole situation. She had a moment of heated anger. I doubt very much she would do something like that again."

NBC News reports Schierbecker filed suit leading to Click facing charges of third-degree assault and possibly up to 15 days in jail.

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