Machete-wielding NYC professor sues fast food after being charged over threatening reporter

Now them fired and armed with machetes nyc teacher who threatened to “chop” a reporter was seen grabbing a bite to eat at a Bronx Popeyes restaurant after her court appearance on Thursday.

Shellyne Rodriguez, 45, was charged with threatening and harassing and then released on bail after her arraignment, according to the New York Post, after turning herself in to police on Thursday morning. The Bronx District Attorney’s Office could not immediately be reached for comment.

Rodriguez and a handful of supporters who supported her in court drove to the fast food joint, where she was seen smiling and laughing.

The criminal charges stem from Tuesday’s confrontation with a New York Post reporter. The NYPD said Rodriguez allegedly followed him out of his apartment building with a machete, chased him down the street, and kicked him in the leg.

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Rodriguez did not respond to Fox News Digital’s calls for comment, but did issue a statement to ARTnews, saying Hunter College “capitulated” to “racists, white nationalists and misogynists” after they fired her. .

She said the whole ordeal “has had an impact on my mental health.”

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A New York Post reporter visited Rodriguez at her Bronx home after she was seen on video destroying Students for Life in America’s anti-abortion display in a swear-filled rant that went viral earlier this month.

The Hunter College union appeared to support Rodriguez after the May 2 video, with an online petition encouraging people to “stand with” Rodriguez against “the right-wing backlash against abortion.”

The petition, which was posted on Friday, has since been removed from the union’s website. However, a archived version of the webpage argued that the professor was “subject to administrative retaliation” over the incident earlier this month.

Post reporter Reuven Fenton followed the viral video and visited Rodriguez at his Bronx apartment to tell him about the tirade against the pro-life student group.

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She told ARTnews that Fenton and a photographer “did not use the intercom to gain access and appeared to have entered the interior of the building when they knocked on her door and began yelling at her through the door. “. Fenton said he identified himself as a reporter.

The university told her to apologize, which she told ARTnews: “However, before the process was complete, on May 19, Students for Life released a manipulated video of the incident on social networks. and mobilized its members to attack me.”

“For the past two weeks, I have been inundated with vile and hateful emails, texts and voicemails,” she told the outlet. “While this incident has stakes in my life, it is ultimately only part of a larger political struggle unfolding across the country.

“Right-wing media organizations weaponize and sensationalize this case to advance their agenda, and use me as a prism through which to project their attacks on women, trans people, black people, Latinx, migrants and beyond. .”

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Wendy Olsoff, co-founder of PPOW, the New York gallery that represents Rodriguez, told ARTnews the situation was similar to when the American Family Association and the Reverend Donald Wildmon went after David Wojnarowicz, whose the estate is also on the gallery’s list.

Wojnarowicz was gay and spoke openly about government ignorance of AIDS, leading some Christian groups to call his art “blasphemous”, the outlet reported.

“Now I feel like nothing has changed and, in fact, the strategies of these organizations have become more sophisticated,” Olsoff said in a statement to ARTnews. “Now all the organizations, like the AFA, have to do is manipulate an iPhone video and characterize Rodriguez as a crazy gay black professor.

“With the click of a button, their hateful message of fear, violence, racism, sexism and homophobia can be sent across the country and the world – intended to target people of color, LGBTQAI+, rights women and anyone who does not fall in accordance with their agenda.”

PPOW did not respond to calls for comment from Fox News Digital.

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Rodriguez is also a faculty member at the School of Visual Arts in New York, which said it was reviewing Rodriguez’s employment and should not teach any classes even before the violent altercation.

“SVA is aware of the incidents involving one of our faculty members, Shellyne Rodriguez, who is not currently teaching any courses at the College,” the school said in a statement to media. “We are evaluating to determine potential next steps.”

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