College student details professor's attack on anti-abortion display
CUNY Hunter College student Patrick Rubi joined 'The Ingraham Angle' to discuss a professor messing up a pro-life display because it 'triggered' her students.
A student at a New York City college is speaking out after a professor "berate[d]" him and other students for a pro-life display.
"I think she was mostly offended by our general presence on campus," CUNY Hunter College student Patrick Rubi said, of the professor. "Our tabling was mainly about chemical abortions and the harms of chemical abortions for mothers and for the children involved. But I don't know if she looked at our supplies before she came and started to berate us."
On "The Ingraham Angle," Monday, Rubi explained he and other students were manning a table displaying pro-life literature earlier this month when they were confronted by an angry professor, who shouted profanities at the students before tossing materials off the table, video of the interaction shows.
"You're not educating s---, this is f---ing propaganda," the professor tells the students in a clip posted to Twitter by Students for Life of America. "What are you going to do, like anti-trans next?"
The professor was identified as art professor Shellyne Rodriguez, who a Hunter College spokesperson confirmed works at the school as an adjunct assistant professor.
In the viral video of the confrontation with the students, Rubi and other individuals appear to try to de-escalate the situation, apologizing to Rodriguez while noting they are just attempting to educate people on the issue.
"This is bull----, this is violent," Rodriguez said. "You're triggering my students."
"I am sorry about that," Rubi responded.
"No you’re not, because you can’t even have a f---ing baby. So you don’t even know what that is. Get this s--- the f--- out of here," the professor fires back before attempting to push the items off the table. "F--- this s---."
Rubi shared that the aggressive response from Rodriguez was not the only incident they encountered.
Another student approached the pro-life display, stole several fetal models and chewed them up before returning them to Rubi and the other pro-life students.
"So she had said she had that student had come along when we were tabling. And it's my understanding that she did not say anything before she proceeded to take two of our fetal models and put them in her mouth and start to chew them in front of us. So she chewed them in her mouth and then left," Rubi said.
"But then she came back and returned our fetal models, except she had colored red all over them and come up with a sign calling us fascists."
According to host Laura Ingraham, Fox News did not receive a comment from Rodriguez.
However, Ingraham's show did receive a comment from Hunter College:
"The college is taking this matter very seriously. The Provost has opened an investigation into the professor's actions," Hunter College said in the statement returned on Monday.
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On Tuesday, one day after she made headlines for her response to Rubi and other pro-life students at the school, Shellyne Rodriguez spewed menacing remarks when The New York Post knocked on the door of her Bronx apartment.
"Get the f–k away from my door, or I’m gonna chop you up with this machete!" the adjunct art professor shouted from behind her closed door.
Seconds later, The New York Post reported, Rodriguez barged out and put the blade to veteran reporter Reuven Fenton's neck.
Vince P Dimiceli from the Hunter College Office of Communications subsequently released a statement regarding the machete incident, indicating the immediate termination of Rodriguez's employment status.
"Hunter College strongly condemns the unacceptable actions of Shellyne Rodriguez, and has taken immediate action. Rodriguez has been relieved of her duties at Hunter College effective immediately, and will not be returning to teach at the school."
Fox News' Michael Lee, as well as The New York Post's Reuven Fenton and Emily Crane, contributed to this report.
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