New Email At Mizzou Orders Students To Call The Police If They’re Offended

Daily Caller ^ | 11/10/15 | Blake Neff

[markomalley]

As tensions at the University of Missouri continue to rage, the college’s police department has sent a new email to students advising them to call the police if they witness any incidents of “hurtful speech.”

The email arrived in the inboxes of Missouri students Tuesday morning, and copies of it were quickly posted on Twitter.

Mizzou student email [@MadiLAlexander/Twitter]

MU’s police essentially tell students to make a criminal report of any hurtful behaviors (complete with license plate numbers, photos, and more), even though they freely acknowledge that hurtful speech is not a crime. But the email says that doesn’t matter, because the school could still take disciplinary action against students.

Missouri officials may be overreaching tremendously, though. As a public university, the University of Missouri is bound by the First Amendment, which guarantees the right to free speech. Court rulings on such matters have repeatedly held that public colleges cannot punish students for otherwise legal speech and expression they engage in outside of class.

The email continues what has become a chilly environment for free speech and expression at MU. A viral video posted Monday circulated on the web showing a gang of students, led by communications professor Melissa Click, attacking a cameraman attempting to cover on-campus protests in a public area. (RELATED: Meet The Mizzou Professor Who Threatened A Report With Mob Violence)

[thorvaldr]

I guess they don’t have a wambulance available

[Parley Baer]

Just ridiculous.

[UnwashedPeasant]

I am micro-offended by this.

Calling the police uses electricity, which causes global warming, which kills black people.

[MeganC]

What’s the email address...butthurt@mupd.gov??

[humblegunner]

I guess they are learning to be like the weenies that call the Moderators on Free Republic.

Weak and pathetic and a little bit damp.

[allendale]

Whoever wrote that directive is a state employee and should immediately be sued for conspiring to violate the constitutional rights of free speech. The person should also be hauled before a legislative committee to demonstrate to the people of Missouri how their tax dollars are being spent.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

The USA is one small step away from (at least de facto) having Canadian-style "hate-speech" laws.

[TYVets]

This sounds like 0bama’s Missouri Truth Squad from the 2008 campaign

[Vince Ferrer]

Start turning in the maoists.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Let’s out the SOB who wrote this, who’s “idea” it was

And demand his/her termination

[Clintonfatigued]

This is for college, but still...

[mowowie]

Poor little snowflake moonbats

[Red in Blue PA]

There is no way this could ever be abused/s

[Blood of Tyrants]

College used to be a place where you were exposed to ideas and situations that expanded your horizons. Sadly, it has become a place where the students are too fragile to experience the real world where no one cares about your feelings.

[SandRat]

[hal ogen]

Poor little leftist babies. I think they are idiots and quislings.

[all the best]

Children who need a safe space need to go home, put on their jammies, grab their teddy bears, suck their thumbs and come back when they have grown up and are ready to face the world.
In victim culture, a person cultivates their sense of weakness and fragility, actively retarding the process of growing up.

[Cuttnhorse]

I happened to catch sheriff Joe Clark on Cavuto today.

Neil asked Clark what he thought about the Mizzu football team threatening not to play any more games; without missing a beat the good sheriff said with a record of 4 wins and 5 losses, it looked like the team had already quit playing.

[Travis McGee]