A New York City artist and college professor who held a machete to a journalist’s neck and threatened to chop him up has been arrested on charges of menacing and harassment.
artist and college professor who held a machete to a journalist’s neck and threatened to chop him up was arrested Thursday on charges of menacing and harassment, police said.
A widely circulated video of the May 2 Hunter College incident shows Rodriguez cursing at the anti-abortion activists and accusing them of "triggering" her students. In the video, Rodriguez asks, "What are you going to do, like anti-trans next?" and sweeps some of the anti-abortion pamphlets off the literature table.sent a reporter and a photographer to Rodriguez's Bronx apartment Tuesday.
The Post said Rodriguez had earlier shouted from behind her closed door that she would "chop you up with this machete!" Hunter, a public college and part of the City University of New York in Manhattan, subsequently fired Rodriguez.
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