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Professor suspended over run-in with student journalists during protests

Melissa Click from video
Melissa Click from video
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The University of Missouri’s governor board says it’s suspended an assistant professor accused of assault stemming from a campus run-in with student journalists during protests in November.

Melissa Click is suspended “pending further investigation.”

Pam Henrickson, chair of the University of Missouri system’s Board of Curators, said in a statement after a special board meeting Wednesday night that the board called for its general counsel to conduct an investigation to determine whether additional discipline “is appropriate.”

Click had a confrontation with a student photographer and a student videographer on Nov. 9 during protests at the Columbia campus over what some saw as university leadership’s indifference to racial issues. Click called for “some muscle” to help remove the videographer from the protest area on the Columbia campus.

Click has pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge.

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