Fired Mizzou Prof. Melissa Click's reported excuse for seeking safe space 'muscle' isn't selling

https://twitter.com/8bitsofsound/status/703252601287086081

As we reported yesterday, a University of Missouri board has voted to fire assistant communications professor Melissa Click for her actions during a campus protest in November.

It’s now being reported that Click told university personnel investigating the incident that she sought “muscle” to remove a student reporter from a media-free safe space out of concern for her safety:

Mizzou’s Melissa Click says she feared student journalist had a gun https://t.co/TdeHGT6SZD #Campuscarry pic.twitter.com/JQq75C4DIR

— The College Fix (@CollegeFix) February 26, 2016

Click was later reported as saying she never believed the student reporter definitely had a gun, but that “he could have.”

If Click thought the person might have had a gun, her reaction was bizarre:

@instapundit So, she didn't call the police, she called other students. Didn't appear threatened and was the aggressor. SJW typical

— Saltine American (@goodgreg42) February 26, 2016

https://twitter.com/aXXioMM/status/703269796264218628
https://twitter.com/Cameron_Gray/status/703254292044578816

@instapundit @CollegeFix She thought he had a gun, so she asked another student to come and confront him. Got it.

— Kyle Sammin (@KyleSammin) February 26, 2016

Odd, isn’t it?

https://twitter.com/instapundit/status/703228971421442048

Of course she did, because that’s a common fear people have of student journalists. https://t.co/cmAbT75JsG

— Ashe Schow (@AsheSchow) February 26, 2016

https://twitter.com/indieguy888/status/703276244012568576

Former safe space enforcer Click has also been charged with 3rd degree assault because of her actions during the protest.