{"id":1938537,"date":"2023-05-26T06:56:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T10:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/art-teacher-who-chased-reporters-with-machete-surrenders-to-nypd\/"},"modified":"2023-05-26T06:58:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T10:58:53","slug":"art-teacher-who-chased-reporters-with-machete-surrenders-to-nypd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/art-teacher-who-chased-reporters-with-machete-surrenders-to-nypd\/","title":{"rendered":"Art teacher surrenders to NYPD after chasing reporters with machete."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fart-teacher-who-chased-reporters-with-machete-surrenders-to-nypd%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1938537&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><blockquote>\n<h2>Former Art Professor Brandishes Machete at New York Post Reporters<\/h2>\n<p>A former art professor at Hunter College in New York City turned herself in to police on Thursday after she appeared to brandish a machete at a pair of New York Post reporters on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Shellyne Rodriguez, 45, appeared to wave a machete at a New York Post news crew who had visited her apartment building on Tuesday in an incident that was caught on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JlCRi346hhE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">camera.<\/a> Footage appeared to show Rodriguez holding a bladed weapon at a New York Post reporter Reuven Fenton\u2019s neck and telling him \u201cget the [expletive] away from my door.\u201d After Fenton and a photographer left Rodriguez\u2019s apartment building, she appeared to follow the pair out the front of the building where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/art-teacher-who-chased-reporters-with-machete-surrenders-to-nypd\/\" title=\"Art teacher surrenders to NYPD after chasing reporters with machete.\">dash-camera footage showed<\/a> her chasing the photographer around with the machete.<\/p>\n<p>A New York City Police Department (NYPD) spokesperson told NTD News that Rodriguez turned herself in at the police department\u2019s 43rd Precinct in the Bronx on Thursday morning at around 7:20 a.m. The NYPD spokesperson said Rodriguez faces charges of menacing and harassment.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Fired From College Job<\/h2>\n<p>Rodriguez had been an <a href=\"https:\/\/hunter-graduate.catalog.cuny.edu\/departments\/ART-HTR\/faculty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chelsea-clinton-sits-on-board-of-company-accused-of-defrauding-investors\/\" title=\"Chelsea Clinton Sits on Board of Company Accused of Defrauding Investors\">adjunct assistant professor<\/a><\/a> in Hunter College\u2019s Art &#038; Art History Department. Her departure from the university came after an altercation with students earlier this month and her armed encounter with the New York Post news crew.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, pro-life organization Students for Life shared a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StudentsforLife\/status\/1658899477262999553\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a> of Rodriguez confronting the students hosting a booth sharing their views on abortion at Hunter College.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re not educating [expletive]. This is [expletive] propaganda,\u201d Rodriguez said to the students. \u201cWhat are you going to do, like, anti-trans next? Is that what you\u2019re going to do next?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, no. We\u2019re talking about abortion,\u201d a male student at the booth replied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is [expletive]. This is violent. You\u2019re triggering my students,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p>As the confrontation escalated, Rodriguez uttered more profanities as she vandalized the booth by flipping over and pushing materials off a table the students were using.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter College reprimanded Rodriguez after the initial incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHunter does not tolerate such conduct by faculty. The Provost has completed an investigation and the faculty member has been appropriately disciplined,\u201d Hunter College\u2019s Communications Department\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2023\/05\/23\/youre-not-educating-sht-hunter-college-prof-melts-down-over-pro-life-student-display\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a>\u00a0Breitbart earlier this week. \u201cIn addition, the faculty member has been warned that if the behavior reoccurs, there will be further consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The New York Post news crew tracked Rodriguez down after her initial altercation with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-abortion-students-destroy-pro-life-memorial-at-catholic-school-ill-keep-killing-fing-babies\/\" title=\"Pro-Abortion Students Destroy Pro-Life Memorial at Catholic School: \u2018I\u2019ll Keep Killing F***ing Babies!\u2019\">pro-life students<\/a>. This visit led to Rodriguez\u2019s armed confrontation with the reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter College again disavowed Rodriguez\u2019s actions, this time cutting her position at the school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHunter College strongly condemns the unacceptable actions of Shellyne Rodriguez, and has taken immediate action. Rodriguez has been relieved of her duties at Hunter College effective immediately, and will not be returning to teach at the school,\u201d the college\u2019s communications department said in an emailed statement to NTD News on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Incidents Have \u2018Taken a Toll on My Mental Health\u2019: Rodriguez<\/h2>\n<p>NTD News attempted to contact Rodriguez through attorneys who have represented her in a recent lawsuit (<a href=\"https:\/\/admin2.ntd.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/05\/id921524-rodriguez-lawsuit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pdf<\/a>) against the NYPD. Those attorneys did not respond by the time this article was published.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez did reach out to ARTnews on Wednesday to share her side of the story after her alterations with pro-life students. She said the May 2 incident with the students involved the \u201cuse of profanity\u201d and the \u201ctossing [of] the postcards and the metal container of rubber fetuses\u201d the students had at their booth.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez did not directly address her armed encounter with the New York Post reporters but her spokesperson told ARTnews that Fenton and the cameraperson did not identify themselves, didn\u2019t use the building\u2019s intercom system to get in, and \u201cappear to have been trespassing inside the building when they pounded on her door and started yelling at her through the door.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The artist did tell the publication that recent incidents have \u201ctaken a toll on my mental health, robbing me of my sense of safety, and creating reasonable fear that they would show up at my home to cause me physical harm, as has happened w<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Rodriguez turned herself in to police after brandishing a machete at New York Post reporters<\/li>\n<li>She had been fired from her job as an adjunct assistant professor at Hunter College after an altercation with pro-life students and the armed encounter with the reporters<\/li>\n<li>Rodriguez claims recent incidents have taken a toll on her mental health<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What do you think about this incident? Share your thoughts in the comments below.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shellyne Rodriguez, a former art professor at Hunter College, surrendered to police on Thursday for allegedly waving a machete at a New York Post news crew. The incident occurred when the reporters visited her apartment on Tuesday. 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