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(05-25-2023 11:58 AM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote: NYC Professor Shellyne Rodriguez Speaks Out After Being Fired Over Chasing Reporter With Machete
Quote:The Manhattan college arts professor who was fired after threatening a Post reporter with a machete and cursing out anti-abortion students claimed Wednesday that she’s the victim, arguing the school had “capitulated” to racists and misogynists by terminating her.
Shellyne Rodriguez, 45, was axed from Hunter College on Tuesday, just hours after she was filmed holding the blade to the veteran reporter’s neck while spewing menacing remarks outside her Bronx apartment.
Rodriguez lashed out after the reporter identified himself and knocked on her door to ask her for an interview regarding the viral footage of her flipping out on pro-life students at Hunter College on May 2.
In a statement to ARTnews on Wednesday, Rodriguez insisted the saga had “taken a toll on my mental health.”
Rodriguez, who didn’t directly address the machete ordeal in her statement, claimed she had been “inundated with vile and hateful emails, texts and voicemails” over the past two weeks as the footage of her encounter with the anti-abortion students started to spread online.
After the on-campus encounter, where she was filmed telling the students their pro-life pamphlets were “f–king propaganda,” Rodriguez said she issued an apology after being directed to by the college’s administration.
“Yet before the process could be completed, on May 19th, Students for Life circulated a manipulated video of the incident on social media and mobilized their members and supporters to attack me,” she said.
Rodriguez said the ordeal — and subsequent threats — had robbed her of her “sense of safety.”
She added that it had created a “reasonable fear that they would show up at my home to cause me physical harm, as has happened with so many other women who have similarly had their personal info exposed as a form of politically motivated harassment.”
With her firing, Rodriguez said the school had “capitulated” to “racists, white nationalists, and misogynists.”
“As much as this incident has stakes for my life, it is ultimately just one part of a broader political struggle taking place across the country,” she said.
“Right wing media organizations are weaponizing and sensationalizing this case to further their agenda, and using me as a prism through which to project their attacks on women, trans people, black people, Latinx people, migrants, and beyond.”
Woke NYC pro-abortion prof turns herself in after threatening NY Post reporter with machete
Quote:The woke New York City anti-abortion professor caught on video threatening a reporter and holding a machete to his neck has turned herself in to police.
Shellyne Rodriguez, 45, surrendered to officials at the 43rd Precinct in the Bronx on Thursday morning, according to the New York Post, the outlet with whom the victim worked.
Rodriguez, who was until Tuesday a professor at Hunter College, first gained notoriety after a video of her vandalizing a display set up by Students for Life activists at the school went viral. In the clip, she confronted the pair of students behind the booth and called their materials "f*cking propaganda" before pushing pamphlets off the table and storming off.
The video prompted Post reporter Reuven Fenton to track her down, and ask her about the incident.
Upon arriving at her apartment in the Bronx, Fenton knocked on the door, and identified himself when she came out. Rodriguez almost immediately pulled out a large knife and threatened him with it.
"Get the f*ck away from my door, or I'm gonna chop you up with this machete!" she can be heard yelling in video of the altercation, holding the blade up to Fenton's neck.
Although Fenton and his photographer assistant vacated the premises soon after, Rodriguez pursued them, machete in hand.
"If I see you on this block one more f*cking time, you're gonna– Get the f*ck off the block!" she yelled as he fled the scene before allegedly kicking him in the shins and going back inside.
Footage of the event caused Rodriguez to go viral yet again, and this time Hunter College took note.
"Hunter College strongly condemns the unacceptable actions of Shellyne Rodriguez and has taken immediate action," school spokesman Vince Dimiceli told the Post. "Rodriguez has been relieved of her duties at Hunter College effective immediately, and will not be returning to teach at the school."
Karma
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