The point the photographer (Tim Tai) makes is that they’re all standing on public property, and just as they have a First Amendment right to protest, he has a First Amendment right to record what is going on. And, as he points out, to document it for history.
Melissa Click, a communications professor at the University of Missouri, is facing criticism after confronting a student journalist covering protests there.
The professor, Melissa Click, is seen in the video telling a student photographer, Mark Schierbecker, he “needs to get out” of the area where protesters had camped. The area is part of the campus quad, which is a public space.
Click, 44, has not commented about the video and made her Twitter account private amid the backlash.
Knowing they, as well as the lay citizen, can do their own documentation and distribution, states, extra-state actors as well as protest movements and groups tend to see the media as much as a nuisance, a target, or an agent out there to be leveraged or pushed around
Professor Melissa Click says she can’t recall pushing University of Missouri student Mark Schierbecker, who recorded her calling for “muscle” to remove him from a campus protest. But Schierbecker says she did push him and he has filed a complaint with the with campus police
