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for long-term injuries suffered for long-term injuries suffered
as a result of the arrest.<ref name="NYPost20230523b" /> as a result of the arrest.<ref name="NYPost20230523b" />
According to document 49 of the case, on January 25, 2023,
Rodriguez requested the identity of several police officers
and video recordings from body worn cameras.
After a discovery dispute throughout the month of May 2023,
the court on May 31 ordered the defendants to identify the officers and
produce the video.<ref name="civilcase">{{cite web
| url = https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/61625043/rodriguez-v-city-of-new-york/
| title = Rodriguez et al v. City of New York et al
| date = Dec 16, 2021
| website = CourtListener
}}</ref>


=== Hunter College videos === === Hunter College videos ===

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| caption2 = Hunter final exam schedule, spring 2023
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During the Spring 2023 semester at ], Prof. Rodriguez was teaching a
combined section of ARTCR 23500 "04 Painting" and ARTCR 33600 "05 Advanced Painting"
which met on Tuesdays from 1:10pm to 4:50pm.
The section had a combined enrollment of 16 students
(11 in Painting and 5 in Advanced Painting).<ref name="cunyfirst">{{cite web
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| title = Global Class Search
| website = CUNYfirst Global Search - Class Schedule
| publisher = City University of New York
| access-date = August 6, 2023
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| archive-date = August 6, 2023
}}</ref>

During the same semester, ]
brought their ''This is Chemical Abortion'' tour display to Hunter,
which the organization describes as one of the
"most visceral college campuses"<ref name="sflweb"/>
where campus safety officers are a
"welcome presence"<ref name="sflother">{{cite web
|last= Wharton
|first= Caroline
|title= WATCH: Pro-Abortion New York College Student Steals Fetal Model, Chews it Up, & Paints Fake Blood on It
|url= https://studentsforlife.org/2023/05/08/watch-pro-abortion-new-york-college-student-steals-fetal-model-chews-it-up-paints-fake-blood-on-it/
|access-date= July 23, 2023
|archive-date= June 8, 2023
|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230608023522/https://studentsforlife.org/2023/05/08/watch-pro-abortion-new-york-college-student-steals-fetal-model-chews-it-up-paints-fake-blood-on-it/
|work=]
|date= May 8, 2023
}}</ref>
and where they make videos of the
vulgarity directed at them.<ref name="sflweb"/><ref name="sflother"/><ref name="sflytsr">{{cite AV media
| date = May 18, 2023
| title = "The ANGRIEST Pro-Choice Teacher FLIPS OUT At Pro-Life Students : Hunter College"
| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2irVTrxN0k&ab_channel=StudentsforLife
| access-date = July 23, 2023
| publisher = ]
}}</ref><ref name="sflyt">{{cite AV media
| date = May 5, 2023
| title = "This Crazed Pro-Abort Chewed On Our Fetal Models!"
| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuw0-WWamDQ&ab_channel=StudentsforLife
| access-date = July 23, 2023
| publisher = ]
}}</ref><ref name="sfllauraingraham">{{cite AV media
| date = May 23, 2023
| title = "Laura Ingraham Slams Crazed Pro-Abortion Teacher"
| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBEvg87MSZk&ab_channel=StudentsforLife
| access-date = July 23, 2023
| publisher = ]
}}</ref>


On Tuesday, May 2, 2023, after ] students set up a display in a hallway near Rodriguez' classroom studio, they recorded her arguing with them and shoving their pamphlets off of a table. In the recording, she said they were "triggering students."<ref name="sflytsr"/><ref name=ABC>{{cite news On Tuesday, May 2, 2023, after ] students set up a display in a hallway near Rodriguez' classroom studio, they recorded her arguing with them and shoving their pamphlets off of a table. In the recording, she said they were "triggering students."<ref name="sflytsr"/><ref name=ABC>{{cite news
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|work=] |work=]
|date=May 24, 2023 |date=May 24, 2023
}}</ref> According to '']'', Rodriguez began receiving messages filled with "racial and sexual slurs and threats of death and physical violence."<ref name="hyperallergic" />
}}</ref>
Not satisfied, ] posted the video to ]
on May 17,<ref name="sfltwt">{{Cite tweet
|author=Students for Life of America
|user=StudentsforLife
|number=1658899477262999553
|date=May 17, 2023
|title=Pro-Abortion Teacher Vandalizes Pro-Life Student Table
}}</ref>
to ] on May 18<ref name="sflytsr"/>
and to their website on May 18.<ref name="sflweb">{{cite web
|last=Stancavage
|first=Dana
|title=VIDEO: Fetusphobic Professor Becomes Unhinged Over Peaceful Pro-life Students on Campus, Destroys Display
|url=https://studentsforlife.org/2023/05/18/video-fetusphobic-professor-becomes-unhinged-over-peaceful-pro-life-students-on-campus-destroys-display/
|access-date=July 20, 2023
|archive-date=June 5, 2023
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230605161550/https://studentsforlife.org/2023/05/18/video-fetusphobic-professor-becomes-unhinged-over-peaceful-pro-life-students-on-campus-destroys-display/
|work=]
|date=May 18, 2023
}}</ref>
According to '']'', Rodriguez began receiving messages filled with "racial and sexual slurs and threats of death and physical violence."<ref name="hyperallergic" />

In accordance with Hunter's final exam schedule,
her combined painting section's last class session was on Tuesday May 16
and they should have held their final exam
on Tuesday May 23.<ref name="hunterregistrar">{{cite web
| url = https://s29068.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/final-exam-schedule-sp23-gg-access.pdf
| title = Final Exam Schedule Spring 2023
| publisher = Hunter College, CUNY
| access-date = August 6, 2023
| archive-url = https://commons.wikimedia.org/File:Final-exam-schedule-sp23-gg-access_blur.pdf
| archive-date = August 6, 2023
}}</ref>


Meanwhile as the video gained attention on social media, As the video gained attention on social media,
the '']'' published a story about it the '']'' published a story about it
on May 22.<ref name="NYPost20230522">{{cite news on May 22.<ref name="NYPost20230522">{{cite news
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before Rodriguez could leave home and travel to Hunter College to give the final exam to her students, before Rodriguez could leave home and travel to Hunter College to give the final exam to her students,
a ''New York Post'' reporter and a photographer went to her home to interview her and take a photograph of her. Rodriguez refused. According to the reporter's own account of the incident, she told them to "get lost."<ref name="NYPostvideo"/> Instead of leaving, they persisted with their request for an interview. They did not leave until she opened the door, pointed a machete at one and told them to: "Get away from my door! Get the fuck away from my door!"<ref name="NYPostvideo">{{cite news |last1=Fenton |first1=Reuven |title=EXCLUSIVE: Post Reporter Threatened by NYC Professor with Machete Tells All |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTC_LYXcc9I&t=111s&ab_channel=NewYorkPost |access-date=July 10, 2023 |work=] |date=May 24, 2023}}</ref> Rodriguez then followed the journalists to their car, where the car's cameras recorded her chasing them with machete in hand.<ref name=ABC/><ref name="BBC"/><ref name="NYPostvideo"/> a ''New York Post'' reporter and a photographer went to her home to interview her and take a photograph of her. Rodriguez refused. According to the reporter's own account of the incident, she told them to "get lost."<ref name="NYPostvideo"/> Instead of leaving, they persisted with their request for an interview. They did not leave until she opened the door, pointed a machete at one and told them to: "Get away from my door! Get the fuck away from my door!"<ref name="NYPostvideo">{{cite news |last1=Fenton |first1=Reuven |title=EXCLUSIVE: Post Reporter Threatened by NYC Professor with Machete Tells All |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTC_LYXcc9I&t=111s&ab_channel=NewYorkPost |access-date=July 10, 2023 |work=] |date=May 24, 2023}}</ref> Rodriguez then followed the journalists to their car, where the car's cameras recorded her chasing them with machete in hand.<ref name=ABC/><ref name="BBC"/><ref name="NYPostvideo"/>

The ''New York Post'' published a news article about the incident at 1:45pm.
In the article, they quoted a Hunter College spokesperson as saying that the
college had "taken immediate action"
and fired Rodriguez.<ref name=NYPost20230523a>{{cite news
|last1=Fenton
|first1=Reuven
|last2=Crane
|first2=Emily
|title=Shellyne Rodriguez, Unhinged NYC college professor who cursed out anti-abortion students, holds machete to Post reporter's neck
|url=https://nypost.com/2023/05/23/nyc-college-professor-shellyne-rodriguez-holds-machete-to-post-reporters-neck/
|access-date=July 20, 2023
|archive-date=June 18, 2023
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230618065602/https://nypost.com/2023/05/23/nyc-college-professor-shellyne-rodriguez-holds-machete-to-post-reporters-neck/
|work=]
|date=May 23, 2023
|at=1:45pm
}}</ref> At 4:18pm, the ''New York Post''
published an article about her civil lawsuit
against the City and NYPD officers.<ref name=NYPost20230523b>{{cite news
|last1=Fenton
|first1=Reuven
|last2=Campanile
|first2=Carl
|last3=Crane
|first3=Emily
|title=Shellyne Rodriguez, NYC college professor who threatened Post reporter with machete, is fired as her lawsuit against NYPD emerges
|url=https://nypost.com/2023/05/23/nyc-college-professor-shellyne-rodriguez-who-threatened-post-reporter-with-machete-is-fired/
|access-date=July 20, 2023
|work=]
|archive-date=June 4, 2023
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230604180850/https://nypost.com/2023/05/23/nyc-college-professor-shellyne-rodriguez-who-threatened-post-reporter-with-machete-is-fired/
|date=May 23, 2023
|at=4:18pm
}}</ref>
And later that evening, when the ''New York Post'' reporter appeared on '']'', studio audience members cheered as host ] reported that she had been fired.<ref name="hannitycheers">{{cite news
|last1=Hannity
|first1=Sean
|title=New York Post reporter not sure whether he'll press charges against machete-wielding professor
|url=https://www.foxnews.com/video/6328110898112
|access-date=July 20, 2023
|work=]
|date=May 23, 2023}}</ref>


The next day, May 24, other news outlets, like the ], reported that Rodriguez had been fired from Hunter College following the incident with the ''New York Post'' reporters.<ref name=BBC/><ref name="beast">{{cite news |last1=Hippensteel |first1=Chris |date=May 23, 2023 |title=NYC Professor Threatens to 'Chop Up' New York Post Reporter With Machete |work=] |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/professor-shellyne-rodriguez-threatens-new-york-post-reporter-with-machete |access-date=May 24, 2023|archive-url=https://archive.fo/995Ot |archive-date=May 24, 2023 }}</ref> And on May 25, Rodriguez was arrested on charges of ] and ]<ref name=ART/><ref name=ABC/> and fired from her position at the ].<ref name=ABC/> The next day, May 24, other news outlets, like the ], reported that Rodriguez had been fired from Hunter College following the incident with the ''New York Post'' reporters.<ref name=BBC/><ref name="beast">{{cite news |last1=Hippensteel |first1=Chris |date=May 23, 2023 |title=NYC Professor Threatens to 'Chop Up' New York Post Reporter With Machete |work=] |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/professor-shellyne-rodriguez-threatens-new-york-post-reporter-with-machete |access-date=May 24, 2023|archive-url=https://archive.fo/995Ot |archive-date=May 24, 2023 }}</ref> And on May 25, Rodriguez was arrested on charges of ] and ]<ref name=ART/><ref name=ABC/> and fired from her position at the ].<ref name=ABC/>

A petition in support of Rodriguez
drafted by ] co-founder ]
and published by '']''
quickly gathered hundreds of signatures.<ref name="hapetition" />
A coalition petition gathered
1259 signatures.<ref name="lashback">{{cite web
| url = https://lashbacknyc.net/
| title = Protect Adjunct Professor Rodriguez Now!
| archive-date = June 12, 2023
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230612155628/https://lashbacknyc.net/
| author = FEAS Frente Hermanas Amor y Solidaridad
| access-date = July 22, 2023
}}</ref>
And to support Rodriguez, a committee of artists and educators
established a fundraiser which raised $22,000 of its $30,000 goal
in its first two weeks.<ref name="hapetition">{{cite news
| last = Di Liscia
| first = Valentina
| title = Hundreds Sign Petition in Support of Artist Shellyne Rodriguez
| url = https://hyperallergic.com/827073/hundreds-sign-petition-in-support-of-artist-shellyne-rodriguez/
| access-date = July 22, 2023
| archive-date = July 7, 2023
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230707111019/https://hyperallergic.com/827073/hundreds-sign-petition-in-support-of-artist-shellyne-rodriguez/
| work = ]
| date = June 9, 2023
}}</ref>


== References== == References==

Revision as of 07:18, 9 August 2023

American visual artist and organizer

Shellyne Rodriguez (born 1977) is an American visual artist, organizer and professor based in the Bronx, New York City.

Education

Rodriguez graduated with a BFA in Visual & Critical Studies from the School of Visual Arts in 2011 and an MFA in Fine Art from Hunter College in 2014.

Artistic practice

In 2014, Rodriguez attended the Shandaken Project Residency in the Catskills of New York. In 2015, she was artist-in-residence in the sculpture department at Hunter College. In 2017, Rodriguez collaborated with the Museum of Modern Art to create the Night Studio program, a free art class for New York City residents in the process of taking the TASC (Test Assessing Secondary Completion, formerly the GED). In 2018, Rodriguez was awarded the Percent for Art public sculpture commission to create a permanent public sculpture in the Bronx. Shellyne stated that the sculpture would serve as "a monument to the people of the Bronx." In 2018, the Whitney Museum of American Art released a video by Rodriguez in which she discussed Ja'Tovia Gary's film An Ecstatic Experience.

In 2019, Rodriguez became the inaugural artist-in-residence at The Latinx Project, an initiative based at NYU that is dedicated to Latinx studies. Rodriguez curated a show centered around ideas of displacement and how it affects the Latinx population in New York. The show included pieces by Rodriguez, Alicia Grullón, and anti-gentrification group Mi Casa No es Su Casa.

Selected exhibition history

  • Siempre En La Calle: Calderón, October 28, 2021 to January 29 2022
  • PELEA: Visual Responses to Spatial Precarity, Latinx Project, NYU, 2019; curator: Shellyne Rodriguez
  • BRONX NOW: Bronx River Art Center, July 14 to September 8, 2018; curated by Laura James and Eileen Walsh, who work under the name BXNYCreative
  • Tamir Rice Photo Booth: Window Project, IMI Corona, Queens Museum, 2016; curator: Prerana Reddy

Social-action activities

Community organizing

Rodriguez is a community organizer and an active member of the grassroots collective Take Back the Bronx. In March 2019, Rodriguez joined a group of Latinx scholars, artists, and activists in penning and signing a letter to El Museo del Barrio demanding change at the East Harlem institution.

Rodriguez is a member of Decolonize This Place and spoke at the ultimately successful May 2019 protests against Warren B. Kanders, owner of the defense manufacturing company Safariland LLC and then-vice chair of the Whitney Museum of American Art, seeking to remove Kanders from its board.

Writing

Rodriguez has written for multiple publications, including Hyperallergic.

In an essay in which she describes herself as a "black Marxist", Rodriguez criticizes the practice of equating identities with "injury" and awarding "immunity" to people with the most identities, calling it a "lazy politics that doesn't require one to do any critical thinking or political work." She argues that "it is a system based on the state's logic of restitution and punishment, and fundamentally opposed to solidarity." What she prefers instead is political organizing and activity.

Legal issues

George Floyd protest video

According to the New York Post, the NYPD arrested Rodriguez in June 2020 during a protest after George Floyd's death. The charges against her were dismissed in September 2020. Then the following year, she and two other plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against the City and members of the NYPD for long-term injuries suffered as a result of the arrest.

Hunter College videos

On Tuesday, May 2, 2023, after pro-life students set up a display in a hallway near Rodriguez' classroom studio, they recorded her arguing with them and shoving their pamphlets off of a table. In the recording, she said they were "triggering students."

After meeting with two members of the Hunter College administration about the matter, Rodriguez apologized. According to Hyperallergic, Rodriguez began receiving messages filled with "racial and sexual slurs and threats of death and physical violence."

As the video gained attention on social media, the New York Post published a story about it on May 22. Then the next morning, on May 23, before Rodriguez could leave home and travel to Hunter College to give the final exam to her students, a New York Post reporter and a photographer went to her home to interview her and take a photograph of her. Rodriguez refused. According to the reporter's own account of the incident, she told them to "get lost." Instead of leaving, they persisted with their request for an interview. They did not leave until she opened the door, pointed a machete at one and told them to: "Get away from my door! Get the fuck away from my door!" Rodriguez then followed the journalists to their car, where the car's cameras recorded her chasing them with machete in hand.

The next day, May 24, other news outlets, like the BBC, reported that Rodriguez had been fired from Hunter College following the incident with the New York Post reporters. And on May 25, Rodriguez was arrested on charges of menacing and harassment and fired from her position at the School of Visual Arts.

References

  1. "An Incomplete History of Protest: Shellyne Rodriguez on Ja'Tovia Gary". whitney.org. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
  2. ^ Rodriguez, Shellyne. "Shellyne Rodriguez". The New Inquiry. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
  3. "Shandaken: Projects | Alumni". www.shandakenprojects.org. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
  4. "MFA Program in Studio Art". 205 Hudson. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
  5. Zwicky, Calder (2017-11-20). "In The Night Studio". MoMA. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
  6. "Shellyne Rodriguez". Bronx 200. 2015-01-25. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
  7. "An Incomplete History of Protest: Shellyne Rodriguez on Ja'Tovia Gary". whitney.org.
  8. ^ "9 Art Events in New York This Week: Nari Ward, Jonas Mekas, Judith Linhares, and More". MutualArt.com. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
  9. Durón, Maximilíano (2021-08-18). "New York's Newest Gallery Spotlights Latinx Artists: 'We See the Lack of Representation and the Need for It'". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2022-01-29.
  10. "Shellyne Rodriguez and Danielle De Jesus: Siempre En La Calle | 28 October 2021 - 29 January 2022". Calderón. Retrieved 2022-01-29.
  11. "PELEA: Visual Responses to Spatial Precarity". wp.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
  12. "Bronx River Art Center :: Gallery :: BRONX NOW". www.bronxriverart.org. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
  13. "Queens Museum". Retrieved 2019-07-10.
  14. "'We Need Change Now': Activists Circulate Open Letter on Future of El Museo Del Barrio". MutualArt.com. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
  15. ""You Can't Hide": Protesters March from Whitney to Warren B. Kanders's Home During Biennial Opening". Artforum. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
  16. "The Unbridgeable Chasm Between the Bronx and the Police". Hyperallergic. 2017-03-21. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
  17. Rodriguez, Shellyne (June 20, 2019). "Two Readings on Mistaken Identity". ASAP/Journal. Retrieved July 17, 2023.
  18. Cite error: The named reference NYPost20230523b was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  19. Cite error: The named reference sflytsr was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  20. ^ Richardson, Kemberly (May 25, 2023). "Hunter College professor arrested after threatening NY Post reporter with machete". WABC-TV / AP. American Broadcasting Company (ABC), a division of The Walt Disney Company. Archived from the original on May 25, 2023. Retrieved May 28, 2023.
  21. ^ Greenberger, Alex (May 26, 2023). "Artist Shellyne Rodriguez Charged with Menacing and Harassment After Incident Involving Reporter". ARTnews. Art Media, LLC. Archived from the original on May 26, 2023. Retrieved May 28, 2023.
  22. ^ Kim, Chloe (May 24, 2023). "US professor fired after machete threat to New York Post reporter". BBC. Archived from the original on May 24, 2023. Retrieved May 24, 2023.
  23. Blaff, Ari (May 23, 2023). "'F***ing Propaganda': CUNY College Professor Destroys Pro-Life Table at Hunter College". National Review. Archived from the original on 28 May 2023. Retrieved May 23, 2023.
  24. ^ Nayyar, Rhea; Di Liscia, Valentina (May 24, 2023). "School Fires Arts Professor Who Confronted Anti-Abortion Group". Hyperallergic. Archived from the original on July 6, 2023. Retrieved July 20, 2023.
  25. Griffin, Allie (May 22, 2023). "NYC college professor Shellyne Rodriguez cursed out anti-abortion students tabling at school". New_York_Post. 11:39pm. Archived from the original on June 1, 2023. Retrieved July 20, 2023.
  26. ^ Fenton, Reuven (May 24, 2023). "EXCLUSIVE: Post Reporter Threatened by NYC Professor with Machete Tells All". New York Post. Retrieved July 10, 2023.
  27. Hippensteel, Chris (May 23, 2023). "NYC Professor Threatens to 'Chop Up' New York Post Reporter With Machete". The Daily Beast. Archived from the original on May 24, 2023. Retrieved May 24, 2023.

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