Global Courant 2023-05-26 21:53:52
The now-fired, machete-wielding NYC professor who threatened to dismember a reporter was seen grabbing a bite to eat at a Bronx Burger King/Popeyes restaurant after her appearance Thursday.
Shellyne Rodriguez, 45, was charged with three offenses — second-degree endangerment and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon — as well as endangerment, which is a misdemeanor.
All charges are “crimes not warrantable for bail,” according to the Bronx District Attorney’s Office, so she was released on her own after her appearance on Thursday.
After her release, Rodriguez and her supporters sauntered to the fast food restaurant, where she smiled and laughed.
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Shellyne Rodriguez at the counter of a Burger King and Popeyes location in the Bronx, New York, May 25, 2023. The former Hunter College professor, who was caught on video with a machete around a NY Post reporter’s neck, was released after appearing in Bronx Criminal Court Thursday. (Kevin C. Downs for Fox News Digital)
Shellyne Rodriguez at the counter of a Burger King and Popeyes location in the Bronx, New York, May 25, 2023. The former Hunter College professor, who was caught on video with a machete around a NY Post reporter’s neck, was released after appearing in Bronx Criminal Court Thursday. (Kevin C. Downs for Fox News Digital)
The charges stem from Tuesday’s confrontation with a New York Post reporter. The NYPD said Rodriguez allegedly followed him out of her apartment building with a machete, chased him down the street, and kicked him in the leg.
The confrontation was caught on camera and several photos were posted on the New York Post website, leading to her losing her job as an adjunct professor at Hunter College.
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Rodriguez did not respond to Fox News Digital’s calls for comment, but she issued a statement to ARTnews, saying the college “capitulated” to “racists, white nationalists and misogynists” after they fired her and said the ordeal “has taken a toll on my mental health.”
A reporter for the New York Post visited Rodriguez at her home in the Bronx after she was seen on video destroying Students for Life in America’s pro-life display in an expletive rant that went viral earlier this month.
Shellyne Rodriguez walks down the street in the Bronx, New York, May 25, 2023. The former Hunter College professor, who was caught on video holding a machete to the neck of a NY Post reporter, was released after being charged Thursday before the Bronx Criminal Court had appeared. (Kevin C. Downs for Fox News Digital)
She allegedly yelled, “Get the f— away from my door or I’ll chop you up with this machete,” according to the indictment obtained by Fox News Digital.
The Hunter College union appeared to support Rodriguez after the May 2 video of her appearing to destroy a demonstration by pro-life students and launched an online petition encouraging people to support Rodriguez against “right-wing anti-abortion backlash.”
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The petition, which was posted on Friday, has since been removed from the union’s website. However, one archived version of the web page argued that the professor “faced retaliation from the administration” over the incident earlier this month.
The union has since said in a statement: “As a union representing the faculty and staff of the City University of New York, the Professional Staff Congress/CUNY has a duty to ensure that every employee we represent receives the full protection of their contractual obligations. rights to due process. The PSC does not condone violence, nor do we comment on members’ ongoing disciplinary proceedings. The union has not released or endorsed any statement about incidents involving Professor Shellyne Rodriguez.”
Post reporter Reuven Fenton followed up on the viral video and visited Rodriguez at her apartment in the Bronx to talk to her about the diatribe against the pro-life student group.
Shellyne Rodriguez threatens a Post reporter by holding a large machete to his throat in the Bronx on Tuesday, May 23, 2023. Rodriguez, a college professor in Manhattan, freaked out about a group of students setting up an anti-abortion information table at Hunter College. (Robert Miller for the NY Post)
Shellyne Rodriguez leaves Bronx Criminal Court in the Bronx, NY, May 25, 2023. The former Hunter College professor was caught on video holding a machete around a New York Post reporter’s neck. (Kevin C. Downs for Fox News Digital)
She told ARTnews that Fenton and a photographer “didn’t use the intercom to gain entry, and it looked like they were entering the building when they banged on her door and started yelling at her through the door.” Fenton said he identified himself as a reporter.
The university said it had to apologise, which it did to ARTnews: “But before the process could be completed, on May 19, Students for Life circulated a manipulated video of the incident on social media and mobilized their members to attack me .”
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“For the past two weeks I have been inundated with vile and hateful emails, texts and voicemails non-stop,” she told the outlet. “As much as this incident is at stake for my life, it is ultimately just one part of a wider political battle taking place across the country.
“Right-wing media organizations are weaponizing and sensationalizing this case to advance their agenda, using me as a prism to project their attacks on women, transgender people, black people, Latinx people, migrants and beyond.”
Shellyne Rodriguez walks down the street in the Bronx, New York, May 25, 2023. The former Hunter College professor, who was caught on video holding a machete to a New York Post reporter’s neck, was released after being shot Thursday before the Bronx Criminal Court had appeared. (Kevin C. Downs for Fox News Digital)
Shellyne Rodriguez leaves Bronx Criminal Court in the Bronx, New York, May 25, 2023. The former Hunter College professor was caught on video holding a machete around a New York Post reporter’s neck. (Kevin C. Downs for Fox News Digital)
Wendy Olsoff, a co-founder of PPOW, the NYC gallery representing Rodriguez, told ARTnews the situation is similar to when the American Family Association and Reverend Donald Wildmon went after David Wojnarowicz, whose estate is also on the gallery’s list. stands.
Wojnarowicz was gay and spoke openly about the government’s ignorance of AIDS, leading some Christian groups to call his art “blasphemous,” the outlet reported.
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“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 organizations like the AFA need only manipulate an iPhone video and characterize Rodriguez as an insane gay black professor.
“At the touch 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, the LGBTQAI+, women’s rights and anyone who doesn’t fall in line with their agenda. .”
Shellyne Rodriguez walks down the street in the Bronx, New York, May 25, 2023. The former Hunter College professor, who was caught on video holding a machete to a New York Post reporter’s neck, was released after being shot Thursday before the Bronx Criminal Court had appeared. (Kevin C. Downs for Fox News Digital)
PPOW did not respond to Fox News Digital’s multiple requests for comment.
Rodriguez is also a faculty member of The School of Visual Arts in New York City, which said in a statement Friday that it will not review Rodriguez’s contract after viewing the video in which she was seen threatening the reporter.
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According to the school, she currently had no scheduled courses for the next semester at SVA before the incident.
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Chris Eberhart is a crime and American news reporter for Fox News Digital. Email tips to [email protected] or on twitter @ChrisEberhart48
