NYC college professor who confronted pro-life students is fired after holding a machete to reporter's neck

An adjunct art professor at CUNY Hunter College in New York City who went viral for erupting on a group of pro-life students who set up a display has been fired after she put a machete to the neck of a New York Post reporter, the news outlet reported.

Shellyne Rodriguez was fired just hours after she was caught on video opening her door to her Bronx apartment and brandishing a machete, which she then held to the neck of the reporter, telling him, "Get the f--- away from my door."

“Hunter College strongly condemns the unacceptable actions of Shellyne Rodriguez and has taken immediate action,” school spokesman Vince Dimiceli told The Post. “Rodriguez has been relieved of her duties at Hunter College effective immediately, and will not be returning to teach at the school.”

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The reporter was trying to interview her about the confrontation with the students, in which she was caught on camera throwing their pamphlets in the air and yelling in their faces.

“You’re not educating s**t. This is f***king propaganda,” Rodriguez told a member of Students for Life during a tabling session in early May. “What are you going to do like anti-trans next?”

“This is violent. You’re triggering my students," she says in the video.

According to The Post, Rodriguez is also embroiled in a lawsuit against the NYPD alleging that she was abused while being arrested at a George Floyd protest in June 2020.