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The below video, which is quickly making the rounds of social media, shows a confrontation between freelance photographer and University of Missouri student Tim Tai and demonstrators during the ongoing campus-wide protest over perceived racial injustice at the school.

Tai, who was on assignment for ESPN, attempts to photograph a tent city encampment in a public area of the campus but is repeatedly blocked by demonstrators from a group called Concerned Student 1950. At one point, the group chants: “Hey hey, ho ho, reporters have got to go.”

In response, Tai tells the protestors: “I am documenting this for a national news organization…the First Amendment protects your right to be here and mine.”

Towards the end of the clip, which was shot by Mark Shierbecker, a woman who has been identified as University of Missouri Assistant Professor of Mass Media Melissa Click, appears to grab Shierbecker’s camera after he tells her he’s a journalist.

“Who wants to help me get this reporter out of here? I need some muscle over here,” Click says in the video.

Watch the clip and tell us what you think in the comments below.

(Via NYTimes.com)