Which she only made up after the University began investigating her.
Via The Chronicle:
Melissa A. Click told investigators working for the University of Missouri’s board that she feared a student whom she tried to remove from a campus protest last fall might have had a gun.
Ms. Click, the assistant professor of communication who was fired on Wednesday by the system’s Board of Curators, drew the ire of free-speech advocates in November when she was caught on video asking for “some muscle” to remove Mark Schierbecker from the site of a student protest over racism at the Columbia flagship.
According to documents published on Thursday, Ms. Click told investigators who were hired by the system to look into the incident more about her encounter with Mr. Schierbecker