The University of Missouri professor caught on video blocking journalists from filming protests issued an apology Tuesday evening.
Assistant Professor Melissa Click earned national scorn Monday after a video showed her joining students in browbeating photographer Tim Tai, who was freelancing for ESPN to cover the racially-charged protests
Click is heard yelling with students for Tai to stop taking photos and step away from an encampment on school grounds. The protesters repeatedly push Tai as he tries explaining how the First Amendment works.
At the end of the video, another student reporter, Mark Schierbecker, tries talking to Click. She tells him to “get out,” hits his camera and yells: "Who wants to help me get this reporter out of here? I need some muscle over here.”
The confrontation between Click and the reporter took place amid racial tension that had been accelerating since September on the Columbia, Missouri, campus.
Several African-American students on campus had been targeted with hate speech, and students on campus called for then President Tim Wolfe's resignation. Wolfe resigned Monday morning.
Faculty at the Missouri School of Journalism are currently deciding on whether or not to revoke a courtesy appointment for Click, the Columbia Missourian reported.
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