{"id":299528,"date":"2023-09-30T09:07:35","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T14:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=299528"},"modified":"2023-09-28T19:26:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T00:26:29","slug":"college-hires-professor-threatened-machete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/college-hires-professor-threatened-machete\/","title":{"rendered":"College hires professor who destroyed pro-life display and threatened reporters with machete"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A machete-wielding professor who <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/professor-machete-pro-life-display\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">destroyed<\/a> a pro-life display and threatened a New York Post reporter with a machete has landed another job, despite her violent background.<\/p>\n<p>Former Hunter College professor Shellyne Rodriguez cursed out a group of pro-life students last year before destroying their table. She was escorted away by campus security, but returned to curse at the students more. Hunter College is one of the constituent colleges for CUNY, or the City University of New York, and a campus pro-abortion group lauded her actions as &#8220;courageous&#8221; and &#8220;justified.&#8221; A reporter for the New York Post tried to interview Rodriguez at her home, but she angrily exited her apartment wielding a machete.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGet the f\u2013k away from my door, or I\u2019m gonna chop you up with this machete!\u201d she yelled, putting the machete against reporter Reuven Fenton&#8217;s neck. \u201cGet the f\u2013k away from my door! Get the f\u2013k away from my door!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fenton and his photographer quickly fled, but Rodriguez followed them, carrying the machete the whole way. Before leaving, she chased the photographer to their car, and kicked Fenton. Rodriguez was fired from her position at Hunter College&#8230; but the Cooper Union, a private college in New York City, has since hired her.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4XPacIhHKZ0?si=_jrXPKlBGX4BgUiX\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The College Fix <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/nyc-art-prof-who-threatened-reporter-with-machete-gets-new-teaching-job\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that the college website <a href=\"https:\/\/cooper.edu\/academics\/people\/shellyne-rodriguez-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lists Rodriguez<\/a> as an adjunct professor, and is teaching a sculpture class this fall semester. So far, the college has not responded to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>After the incident with Fenton, Rodriguez was arrested and is currently facing charges of harassment, menacing, and weapons possession, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/08\/14\/nyc-college-professor-who-threatened-to-chop-post-reporter-with-machete-weighs-plea-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a>. Judges also recently <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/08\/14\/nyc-college-professor-who-threatened-to-chop-post-reporter-with-machete-weighs-plea-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">extended<\/a> orders of protection for Fenton against Rodriguez in August. After she was fired from her position at Hunter College, Rodriguez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/shellyne-rodriguez-hunter-college-firing-response-1234669479\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released a statement<\/a> saying Hunter College had \u201ccapitulated\u201d to \u201cracists, white nationalists, and misogynists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This history did not stop another college from hiring her to work with students.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/stop-planned-parenthood\/?utm_campaign=sex_ed_petition&amp;utm_medium=LAN&amp;utm_source=website\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-295788\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Stop-PP-From-Sexualizing-Kids970x250-blur-700x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Stop-PP-From-Sexualizing-Kids970x250-blur-700x180.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Stop-PP-From-Sexualizing-Kids970x250-blur-300x77.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Stop-PP-From-Sexualizing-Kids970x250-blur-768x198.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Stop-PP-From-Sexualizing-Kids970x250-blur-500x129.jpg 500w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Stop-PP-From-Sexualizing-Kids970x250-blur.jpg 970w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A machete-wielding professor who destroyed a pro-life display and threatened a New York Post reporter with a machete has landed another job, despite her violent background. Former Hunter College professor Shellyne Rodriguez cursed out a group of pro-life students last year before destroying their table. She was escorted away by campus security, but returned to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":299543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[15,3473],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>College hires professor who destroyed pro-life display and threatened reporters with machete<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A machete-wielding professor who destroyed a pro-life display and threatened a New York Post reporter with a machete has landed another job.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/college-hires-professor-threatened-machete\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"College hires professor who destroyed pro-life display and threatened reporters with machete\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A machete-wielding professor who destroyed a pro-life display and threatened a New York Post reporter with a machete has landed another job.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/college-hires-professor-threatened-machete\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-09-30T14:07:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-09-29T00:26:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/shellyne-rodriguez-screenshot.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"594\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Cassy Cooke\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Cassy Cooke\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/college-hires-professor-threatened-machete\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/college-hires-professor-threatened-machete\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Cassy Cooke\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/16622da192101346f516b7444d125392\"},\"headline\":\"College hires professor who destroyed pro-life display and threatened reporters with machete\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-09-30T14:07:35+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-09-29T00:26:29+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/college-hires-professor-threatened-machete\/\"},\"wordCount\":333,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Analysis\",\"Newsbreak\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/college-hires-professor-threatened-machete\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/college-hires-professor-threatened-machete\/\",\"name\":\"College hires professor who destroyed pro-life display and threatened reporters with machete\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2023-09-30T14:07:35+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-09-29T00:26:29+00:00\",\"description\":\"A machete-wielding professor who destroyed a pro-life display and threatened a New York Post reporter with a machete has landed another job.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/college-hires-professor-threatened-machete\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/college-hires-professor-threatened-machete\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/college-hires-professor-threatened-machete\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"College hires professor who destroyed pro-life display and threatened reporters with machete\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/\",\"name\":\"Live Action News\",\"description\":\"Covering Human Rights, Abortion, &amp; Pro-Life Issues\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Live Action\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png\",\"width\":701,\"height\":710,\"caption\":\"Live Action\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/liveaction\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/liveactionorg\/\",\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/LiveActionFilms\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/LiveActionFilms\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/16622da192101346f516b7444d125392\",\"name\":\"Cassy Cooke\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8b602f8210f1a7d948ca1c0dcab11fad?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8b602f8210f1a7d948ca1c0dcab11fad?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Cassy Cooke\"},\"description\":\"Cassy has over 20 years of experience as a writer and editor, most of which have been spent covering pro-life issues like abortion, disability rights, euthanasia, and more.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/author\/cassy-fiano\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"College hires professor who destroyed pro-life display and threatened reporters with machete","description":"A machete-wielding professor who destroyed a pro-life display and threatened a New York Post reporter with a machete has landed another job.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/college-hires-professor-threatened-machete\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"College hires professor who destroyed pro-life display and threatened reporters with machete","og_description":"A machete-wielding professor who destroyed a pro-life display and threatened a New York Post reporter with a machete has landed another job.","og_url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/college-hires-professor-threatened-machete\/","og_site_name":"Live Action News","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction","article_published_time":"2023-09-30T14:07:35+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-09-29T00:26:29+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":594,"url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/shellyne-rodriguez-screenshot.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Cassy Cooke","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@liveaction","twitter_site":"@liveaction","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Cassy Cooke","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/college-hires-professor-threatened-machete\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/college-hires-professor-threatened-machete\/"},"author":{"name":"Cassy Cooke","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/16622da192101346f516b7444d125392"},"headline":"College hires professor who destroyed pro-life display and threatened reporters with machete","datePublished":"2023-09-30T14:07:35+00:00","dateModified":"2023-09-29T00:26:29+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/college-hires-professor-threatened-machete\/"},"wordCount":333,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization"},"articleSection":["Analysis","Newsbreak"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/college-hires-professor-threatened-machete\/","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/college-hires-professor-threatened-machete\/","name":"College hires professor who destroyed pro-life display and threatened reporters with machete","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website"},"datePublished":"2023-09-30T14:07:35+00:00","dateModified":"2023-09-29T00:26:29+00:00","description":"A machete-wielding professor who destroyed a pro-life display and threatened a New York Post reporter with a machete has landed another job.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/college-hires-professor-threatened-machete\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/college-hires-professor-threatened-machete\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/college-hires-professor-threatened-machete\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"College hires professor who destroyed pro-life display and threatened reporters with machete"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/","name":"Live Action News","description":"Covering Human Rights, Abortion, &amp; Pro-Life Issues","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization","name":"Live Action","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png","width":701,"height":710,"caption":"Live Action"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction","https:\/\/twitter.com\/liveaction","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/liveactionorg\/","https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/LiveActionFilms\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/LiveActionFilms"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/16622da192101346f516b7444d125392","name":"Cassy Cooke","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8b602f8210f1a7d948ca1c0dcab11fad?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8b602f8210f1a7d948ca1c0dcab11fad?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Cassy Cooke"},"description":"Cassy has over 20 years of experience as a writer and editor, most of which have been spent covering pro-life issues like abortion, disability rights, euthanasia, and more.","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/author\/cassy-fiano\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299528"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299544,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299528\/revisions\/299544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}