Melissa Click claims she was fired because she’s white

Published April 25, 2016 3:30pm ET



Oh, Melissa Click, you just can’t help yourself, can you?

After being fired by the University of Missouri for assaulting a student journalist during a protest and threatening to call for “muscle” to intimidate him, Click has not been able to go quietly into the unemployment line. First she claimed that she acted the way she did because she thought the student journalist with a camera might have had a gun. So her response to this was to try to get other students (the “muscle”) into harm’s way. Okay.

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