....the law bites back

[Ranb]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/26/opini...-missouri-student-protest-randazza/index.html

When you seek to cast aside other people's rights, in the name of your own personal agenda, you never know when you might want those rights intact for yourself. On Monday, Melissa Click learned that lesson, as prosecutors charged her with assault.

Click is the communication professor who grabbed a videographer's camera and said .... "Hey, who wants to help me get this reporter out of here. I need some muscle over here."

When her conduct went public, Click doubled down in an "apology," but one in which she ultimately blamed the victim.

She was no longer an educator; she was a thug, calling for violence to suppress legitimate reporting. .... When Donald Trump throws protesters or journalists out of his rallies, he gets (well deserved) scorn for it. .... we hear crickets from "my side" of the political divide.

Interesting article.

Ranb

 

[Beerina]

She is a "communications professor" who used violence to try to silence a student journalist, the exact opposite of what she and her profession rely on.

She is a shining example not just of government power abuse, but also that the problem is the power itself, not who uses it, or why.

 

[pipelineaudio]

This is so awesome, and I'm not sure I agree with the article that prosecuting her goes too far

 

[PhantomWolf]

I get the feeling there might be a little bit of a difference between a Presidential Candidate that does this, and a communications professor no-one outside of her immediate circle has even heard of before.

 

[Corsair 115]

Well, the Law says, "Bust a deal, face the wheel." No, wait, that was Aunty Entity.

 

[Ranb]

She got fired.
http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/25/media/melissa-click-fired-university-of-missouri/index.html

"The board believes that Dr. Click's conduct was not compatible with university policies and did not meet expectations for a university faculty member," board spokeswoman Pam Henrickson said in a statement on Thursday.

Last month, Click was charged with third-degree assault by the city prosecutor in Columbia, Missouri. The charge is punishable by a fine of up to $300 and up to 15 days in jail.

Mark Schierbecker, the University of Missouri student who captured the incident, originally filed the complaint against Click, but he had suggested an extralegal resolution.

In December, Schierbecker told CNNMoney that he would have been willing to "just drop the whole thing" if Click discussed the kerfuffle with him on a local radio station.

Ranb

 

[Tony]

The fascist twat also claimed that she feared the camera man had a gun.

http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/26401/

 

[Giordano]

I'm glad she can help some of our more conservative politicians find an outlet for their general ire. Frankly she seems to me to be an easily angered to the point of irrationality, less than ideal faculty member and there are a number of reasons that I feel that the university would likely be better without her. But if you read what she actually did, it is much more stupid than teeth clenching evil. It seems well within the range of "you got to fix this and fly right over the next 6 months" level rather than the "you are fired" level. She did several dumb and wrong things, but I could see a range of possible responses before escalating to a dismissal.

But what I don't like is that she became a political symbol and stereotype for many conservatives, rather than an individual. I can't shake the feeling that her firing was really due to pressure from politicians who wanted to publicly slap the stereotype they saw her as, rather than a carefully considered reaction to her as an individual. What she actually did was wrong and stupid, but not exactly evil incarnate. I have seen far worse result in a letter of reprimand, not a firing

 

[luchog]

I can't shake the feeling that her firing was really due to pressure from politicians who wanted to publicly slap the stereotype they saw her as, rather than a carefully considered reaction to her as an individual. What she actually did was wrong and stupid, but not exactly evil incarnate. I have seen far worse result in a letter of reprimand, not a firing

Her firing was because that is how the climate in American universities has been heading over the last decade. "Zero-tolerance" for even the appearance of impropriety. An environment which has seen students expelled for accusations of rape, despite a complete and utter lack of evidence, combined with the destruction of due process protections; demands for "safe space" policies where anyone even remotely disliked by the radical fringe is effectively prohibited from speaking; where teachers are required to include "trigger warnings" and allow students to opt out of studies that they might find uncomfortable; and so on. And it has largely been people like Click who have worked to create that environment. Now it's turned around to bite her. Poetic justice.