Melissa "Muscle" Click, everyone's favorite former assistant professor of communications who became known for giving a student journalist a hard time for applying the First Amendment, has a hilarious new theory as to why she was fired from her position at the University of Missouri: it was a coded message to black students that Mizzou doesn't like them standing up to whites.

Click proposed this off-the-wall theory to The Chronicle of Higher Education, adding another ridiculous layer to this already ridiculous situation:

"This is all about racial politics. I'm a white lady. I'm an easy target."

Perhaps Click thought this was a better excuse to offer up instead of her initial defense which stated she called for "muscle" in case the student journalist was carrying a gun, as The Washington Examiner noted. 

In any event, Click has been on the defensive since her charges of third-degree assault and eventual firing. She tells the Chronicle that she was at the Black Lives Matter protests to simply "protect black students" but has "taken the fall" even though she wasn't there in an official capacity:

"I’m not a superhero. I wasn’t in charge. When it got out of control, I was the one held accountable.

"I believed at some point, somebody would care about the truth of what I was doing."

Click recently wrote in a Washington Post op-ed: 

"I do not understand the widespread impulse to shame those whose best intentions unfortunately result in imperfect actions. What would our world be like if no one ever took a chance?"

So, when speaking to the Chronicle, Click tried to finally set the record straight by correcting what she considered to be misrepresentative headlines that often featured her now-infamous pointing finger:

"Batsh** Crazy Professor Loses Temper With Student" [should've been] "Favorite Professor Fights to Support Black Students on Campus in Dangerous Situation"

And according to Click, there are plenty of people who would agree with that second "headline," especially those from a certain group:

"Black people love me."

But it appears that Click's story has inspired others in academia to continue carrying the torch of  "stop filming me" and calling for backup. Here is video of a woman some are calling "Melissa Click 2.0." This is an American University media relations person calling for the police because she didn't like being filmed in a public area. This woman was ensuring there was plenty of "safe spaces" on campus for those protesting a speech by Breitbart's Milo Yiannopoulos: