Machete-wielding NYC professor chases down fast food after arraignment for menacing reporter

Now dismissed, the sheet-runner NYC Prof A man who threatened to “bite” a reporter was seen taking a bite to eat at a Bronx Popeyes restaurant after his court appearance Thursday.

Shailene Rodriguez, 45, was charged with uttering threats and harassment and was later released on her own recognizance after her arrest. New York Post, After being handed over to the 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 walked toward the fast-food establishment, where she was seen smiling and laughing.

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

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Rodriguez did not return Fox News Digital’s call for comment, but released a statement to ART News, saying Hunter College fired him after “racists, white people.” “Conceded” to the worshipers and blasphemers.

She said the whole ordeal “has affected my mental health.”

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A reporter from the New York Post met with Rodriguez at his Bronx home after he was seen in a video destroying the lives of students in America. Pro-life Displayed in a vulgar rant that went viral earlier this month.

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

The petition, which was posted on Friday, has since been removed from the union’s website. However, one An archived version of a web page He argued that the professor was “facing retaliation from management” because of the incident earlier this month.

Post reporter Raven Fenton followed up on the viral video and met with Rodriguez at her Bronx apartment to talk to her about the tirade against the pro-life student group.

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He told ART News that Fenton and a photographer “didn’t use the intercom to gain access, and it appears they were breaking into the building when they kicked in the door and opened the door. started yelling at him.” Fenton said he identified himself as a reporter.

The university asked him to apologize, which he told ART News. mobilized members to attack me.”

“For the past two weeks, I’ve been bombarded with vile and hateful emails, texts and voicemails,” she told the outlet. “As much as this incident is at stake for my life, it is ultimately only part of a broader political struggle taking place across the country.

“Right-wing media organizations are weaponizing and sensationalizing this case to push their agenda, using me as a prism through which women, trans people, black people, Latinos, Projecting their attacks on immigrants and beyond.”

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Wendy Olsoff, co-founder of PPOW, the NYC gallery that represents Rodriguez, told ARTnews that the situation is similar when the American Family Association and the Reverend Donald Wildman went after David Wojnarowicz, whose property is also on the gallery’s roster. .

Wojnarowicz was gay and outspoken about government ignorance of AIDS, leading some Christian groups to label his art as “blasphemous”.

“Now it seems to me that nothing has changed and, in fact, the strategies of these organizations have become more sophisticated,” Olsoff said in a statement to ART News. “Now all organizations like AFA have to do is manipulate an iPhone video and feature Rodriguez as a crazy gay black female 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 – aimed at people of color, LGBTQAI+, women’s rights and everyone. Targeting the person who doesn’t avoid it. According to their agenda.”

PPOW did not return Fox News Digital’s call for comment.

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

“SVA is aware of the incident involving one of our faculty members, Shailene Rodriguez, who is not currently teaching a course at the college,” the school said in a statement released to news outlets. “We are conducting a review to determine possible next steps.”

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