What's the deal with Melissa Click?

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Melissa Click was an assistant professor of Communications at Missouri, who was fired yesterday because of her actions during the race protests last year. Basically she got real scary while trying to keep a student journalist out of a safe space. http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/university-of-missouris-board-fires-melissa-click/108881

I've read a few articles on the matter in a number of publications (it is uncharacteristically popular in the general media), and it's interesting how varied the opinions and justifications of this case are. Does anybody have any thoughts? I'm not intimately familiar with the UM system (I only know that it's a clusterfuck ever since the hedge fund guru president), and whilst I understand that there was a political motive to her firing, and also that keeping journalists out of safe spaces is kind of the point of safe spaces, all I can think is why she would throw herself under the bus like this when she was under tenure review. 

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There's a 9 or 10 page discussion on the Chronicle forums. 

What at it boils down to is a lot of people think she should have been fired, but not the way she was. The board fired her without any regard for dismissal process for faculty, which is an immense overstep of their power.