USA: Media students block media after Missouri Uni President resigns over racism

Students and faculty staff from the Missouri School of Journalism, University of Missouri, blocked a journalist from filming a protest encampment after months of student protests prompted the university President Timothy Wolfe to step down over the poor handling of racist incidents at the university in Colombia, Monday. Student protesters and some faculty assistants from the 'Concerned Students 1950' movement were at the encampment at their university quad when they attempted to block a journalist from filming the small tent city. The journalist Tim Tai, also a student at the university's School of Journalism, met heavy resistance when he attempted to cover the story for a freelance assignment with ESPN. Video footage shows a part of the confrontation between the student protesters and the journalist, with one faculty assistant shouting "you need to get out, hey, who wants to help me get this reporter out of here? I need some muscle." The protests were fuelled by allegations of persistent racism after the student body president's complaints of racial abuse were ignored. Another incident involved a swastika drawn with human faeces on a college dorm wall. Protesters formed an encampment on campus and one student Jonathan Butler, a reported veteran of the Black Lives Matter protest movement in ferguson, held a highly publicised hunger strike, refusing to eat until the University President Timothy Wolfe stepped down.