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NYC professor gets new gig teaching, months after

threatening reporter with machete
Shellyne Rodriguez appears on The Cooper Union School of Art site as an adjunct professor
By Greg Wehner Fox News

Published September 27, 2023 8:51pm EDT

Ex-CUNY Professor Shellyne Rodriguez departs Bronx court

Shellyne Rodriguez leaves the Bronx County Hall of Justice in New York, New York, June 26, 2023. (Kevin C. Downs for Fox News Digital)

A New York City college professor who threatened a reporter with a machete in May,
appears to have a new gig as an adjunct professor at another school.

The Cooper Union School of Art, which is a private school in Manhattan, lists Shellyne
Rodriguez, 45, as an adjunct professor who is teaching a 3-credit sculpture class during
the fall semester.

Officials at the school did not immediately respond to inquiries regarding Rodriguez’s
hiring.

NY POST REPORTER THREATENED BY MACHETE-WIELDING PROFESSOR REACTS TO

POSSIBLE PLEA DEAL: I WANT ‘HER TO CHANGE’

Shellyne Rodriguez at the Bronx County Hall of Justice in New York City, June 26, 2023. Rodriguez is charged with three
misdemeanors – fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon and second-degree menacing – as well as menacing,
which is categorized as a violation. (Kevin C Downs for Fox News Digital/File)

InMay, Rodriguez was seen on video lunging out of her apartment and into the hallway
where she held a machete to veteran New York Post reporter Reuven Fenton’s throat.

Fenton had knocked on her door for comment after Rodriguez, a professor at the school,
lashed out at Hunter College students manning a table with anti-abortion materials,
blasting the content as ‘f- - -ing propaganda" before tossing items from the display.

Rodriguez also followed the journalist to the street, NYPD said and chased him with a ,

machete.

MACHETE-WIELDING PROFESSOR CHASES DOWN FAST FOOD AFTER ARRAIGNMENT

FOR MENACING REPORTER

Shellyne Rodriguez walks along the street in the Bronx, N.Y., May 25, 2023. The former Hunter College professor, who was
caught on video holding a machete to a NY Post reporter's neck, was released on her own recognizance after appearing in
Bronx Criminal Court. (Kevin C. Downs for Fox News Digital/File)

Rodriguez turned herself into police on May 25 after allegedly threatening to chop up the
reporter with a machete.

She was charged with fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, second-degree

menacing and menacing.

But Rodriguez insisted she was the real victim and said the entire incident "has taken a
toll" on her mental health.

NY POST REPORTER CONFRONTED BY MACHETE-WIELDING PROFESSOR SPEAKS OUT:

SHE THREATENED TO ‘CHOP US UP’

Shellyne Rodriguez leaves The Bronx County Hall of Justice in New York City with her entourage of supporters who attempt
block cameras from taking her picture, Aug. 14, 2023. Rodriguez is alleged to have threatened a New York Post reporter
and photographer with a machete. (Kevin C. Downs for Fox News Digital/File)

She has since been fired from Hunter College.

Rodriguez is also embroiled in a federal lawsuit with the NYPD, which she accused of
"executing a brutal trap for and assault on the protesters" during a Black Lives Matter
protest.

The 2021 civil lawsuit stems from a BLM protest in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx
on June 4, 2020, in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder by then-Minneapolis police
officers.

At the time, NYC had an 8 p.m. curfew in place. At 7:45 p.m., Rodriguez claimed the NYPD
purposefully trapped them and would not let the protestors disperse before the curfew.

"At around 8 p.m., the police then began a brutal physical assault on the protesters,
beating them with fists, batons and bicycles; deploying pepper spray; and employing
similar violence," the federal lawsuit says.

About 250 people were allegedly arrested that night, including Rodriguez, and the NYPD
allegedly held them in tight quarters during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic ,

according to the lawsuit.

The NYPD denied the accusations in court filings last March. The case continues to wind
its way through the judicial system.

Fox News Digital's Bradford Betz contributed to this report.

Greg Wehner is a breaking news reporter for Fox News Digital.

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